Metro to introduce open payment system in 2025

As part of Metro’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year, officials hope to introduce an Open Payment fare system for Metrorail, Metrobus, and parking facilities during the next calendar year.

That means – just like in cities including New York – customers would have the option of using a credit card, mobile wallet, or linked smartwatch without having to use a SmarTrip card.

Metrorail is scheduled to come first in May 2025, followed by Metrobus in summer 2025 and Metro parking facilities in late fall 2025.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/no-farecard ... nt-options

They'll have to rip my Smartrip card from my cold dead hands.

Hold on... do I still even have value on my card? Let me check the app and... huh, why did the card not get added to my Apple Wallet? I'll fix that...

STrRedWolf wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 5:36 pm They'll have to rip my Smartrip card from my cold dead hands.

Hold on... do I still even have value on my card? Let me check the app and... huh, why did the card not get added to my Apple Wallet? I'll fix that...

I don't think Metro will get rid of Smartrip cards. Federal Employees have smartbenenfits loaded onto their smartrip cards

davinp wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 9:56 am

STrRedWolf wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 5:36 pm They'll have to rip my Smartrip card from my cold dead hands.

Hold on... do I still even have value on my card? Let me check the app and... huh, why did the card not get added to my Apple Wallet? I'll fix that...

I don't think Metro will get rid of Smartrip cards. Federal Employees have smartbenenfits loaded onto their smartrip cards

Until the federal govt decides to cut that benefit as 'waste'.

SmartBenefits is WMATA's implementation of a tax benefit from congress that costs the employeer nothing to operate -- it allows either transit fees or parking fees up to a certain amount to be debitted from paychecks by employers to reduce an employee's taxable income.

RandallW wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:54 am SmartBenefits is WMATA's implementation of a tax benefit from congress that costs the employeer nothing to operate -- it allows either transit fees or parking fees up to a certain amount to be debitted from paychecks by employers to reduce an employee's taxable income.

A skeptic would say. We need the tax revenue from the small guys, so our wealthy persons do not get taxed.