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Re: Sometimes farebeating is OK, says NYC Councilman Jackson |
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Posted by WillD on Tue May 29 02:29:45 2012, in response to Re: Sometimes farebeating is OK, says NYC Councilman Jackson, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon May 28 21:16:06 2012. But for now, the sanest way to eliminate the problem is to clean those slots... But I'd be willing to bet that the cleaning of those slots would pay for itself since I'd bet a large number of farebeaters in the Councilman's point had valid cards in the first place and couldn't dip them.From the description of the errors here there are deeper problems than mere dirty magnetic strip readers. The "Swipe Again" and "Already Entered" errors are more than likely a software problem, one which I am very much familiar with the symptoms of on other systems. Putting out a contract for new machines and the infrastructure behind it would be even more difficult right now But you don't have to get new machines. The *one* saving grace of Cubic's proprietary morass is that it is at least modular, so long as you buy their stuff. You don't replace the gates, you just install the RFID readers like they did for that Chase trial. And you don't replace the TVMs and MVMs, you just install virtually the same readers in them while changing the software to enable functionality. The rest is all changes on the back end which NYCT has already demonstrated compatibility with in the Chase trial. They locked themselves into the proprietary system back in 1994, so they may as well just buck up and introduce Cubic's RFID card and make their system compatible with the Wave and Pay arrangements with Visa, Discover, and Mastercard. That'll greatly reduce the number of swipes on the magnetic reader and allow them to remain cleaner while also making them not critical for the operation of the gate. |
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