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Article: Metro; In Brief
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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THE REGION
Metrobus received a three-day supply of weekday paper transfers
yesterday, two days after it ran out because of problems with its
longtime supplier, Globe Ticket and Label Co.
The regular transfers, printed on rectangular pieces of newsprint,
allow Metrobus riders to switch buses for free within a two-hour
window after paying the initial fare. About 70 percent of Metrobus
riders request transfers each day.
On Tuesday and yesterday, Metrobus resorted to handing out
stockpiled "emergency transfers" that don't have the date stamp or
other controls found on the regular ones. That allowed riders to use
the transfers repeatedly over two days.
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