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PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER 10.09/10.16.2013
FARING WELL, CONTINUED FROM PG. 10
The company has had its share of problems. In Boston, the Massachusetts state auditor general found in 2012 that about $101 million collected on buses and trolleys was unaccounted for during the previous five years. The city “has been fighting with the German firm for six years to provide a ‘software patch’ to correct the accounting snafu,” according to the Boston Herald. There have also been software and hardware problems in Long Island, Phoenix and Ottawa, Ontario, according to newspaper reporting in those locations. (The problems in these other regions are unrelated to the pay stations.) VonGoeler, Scheidt & Bachmann’s spokesman, did not return telephone calls in response to questions about the fare-collection systems in other regions.
Some like it Not every rider has problems with the smart-card systems. Tamara Gibson, 42, was getting on the bus with her daughter, Avani, at the Negley Station. “It’s very nice. I like it,” she says. “Even when you go and pay for your card, it’s really easy. It doesn’t take but five minutes.” Felisha Robinson, the commuter who talked with PublicSource at the Wilkinsburg Station, says she would consider trying the pay stations again if they worked better.
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Tamara Gibson, 42, was taking her daughter, Avani, 9, to the hair salon from the Negley Station. She said she is happy with the new machines and ConnectCards.
“If it went faster, I would, but right now, I’ll stick to the paper bus passes or money,” she says. “But it’s too slow for me right now.” I N F O@ P G H C I T Y PA P E R. C OM
Researcher Margaret Krauss also contributed to this report. PublicSource, a nonprofit investigative news group in Pittsburgh, is a news partner of City Paper. Learn more at PublicSource.org.
{BY MATT BORS}
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