I've only used single-ride tickets on the DC metro; I don't remember how I paid my BART fare (one round trip, I think).
Seattle-area (Sound Transit and King County Metro) I have a stored-value card RFID, and it turned out not to make sense to buy a monthly card in part because they count(ed) a round trip on the same bus line as one trip if you board the return bus within, I think, two hours. I got there late enough that I don't know what they used before that; all I remember from my previous visits is the odd rule (which had ended sometime before I moved west) that buses were free if you boarded in downtown Seattle.
I have an Opus card for the Montreal metro; the weekly passes there, unlike here and NYC, are for calendar weeks, so whether I get one depends not just on how long I'm going to be in town. Those are chipped cards, so you have to take them out and touch the appropriate bit of the turnstile or farebox. I have a specific outside pocket of my parka that I keep it in during winter visits.
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Date: 2018-12-17 04:22 pm (UTC)Seattle-area (Sound Transit and King County Metro) I have a stored-value card RFID, and it turned out not to make sense to buy a monthly card in part because they count(ed) a round trip on the same bus line as one trip if you board the return bus within, I think, two hours. I got there late enough that I don't know what they used before that; all I remember from my previous visits is the odd rule (which had ended sometime before I moved west) that buses were free if you boarded in downtown Seattle.
I have an Opus card for the Montreal metro; the weekly passes there, unlike here and NYC, are for calendar weeks, so whether I get one depends not just on how long I'm going to be in town. Those are chipped cards, so you have to take them out and touch the appropriate bit of the turnstile or farebox. I have a specific outside pocket of my parka that I keep it in during winter visits.