327
Europe builds its own payments system to challenge Visa and Mastercard (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] 2 points 4 hours ago* (1 child)

Just wait until you read about Pasmo and similar. I like Pasmo a lot. You can top up a card use it for transportation, convenience stores, grocery stores, eating out, vending machines, the arcade >_>, etc. It's like a bus pass that you can use in a pinch. And the security is actually not too bad. It's like a different approach, you need to pay your fare for a train but you can get lunch and beer with it as well (for your ride lol). No need to go to a bank, there's terminals at every station. I mean you'll be SOL in the countryside.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 hours ago*

    In Massachusetts, we have the Charlie Card system which is the T. A. P. Pass and our system just got updates to read tap credit cards and tapping your phones.

    Given how unsecure the MBTA is, having this would be a shit show for those who don't get one issued specifically for themselves.

    The Charlie Cards can mainly be found every morning on top of the machines because they're free for most people to get and use (free to use means you're free to use the cards if you please, the trains still have fares, lol) and if you're done with one that's not personally issued to you, it's preferred you leave it on top of a machine on a station so someone else can use it.

    ....... It would have to get rid of public cards and you'd have to make it so that if you want a card you'd have to register for one, which would mean less accessibility for commuters.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent