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by darth_avocado 1405 days ago
One solution here is that you can actually talk to a bart agent and they provide you with a sticker that you can use to get out without tapping. You show the sticker at the next reentry to get in without tapping again.

The problem though, more often than not, the agents are missing from their booths. Also doesn’t help if the exit and reentry are two different stations.
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CoffeeOnWrite 1405 days ago
> You show the sticker at the next reentry to get in without tapping again

I’ve been doing this for years and never seen this. 100% of the time they want to fix the card and peel the sticker off at the outside window, then ask me to tap in at the turnstile.

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wsinks 1405 days ago
That is definitely the problem. And I've dealt with it by being resilient and having more than one way to use the system. A bit of a pain, but there's only one BART and thankfully most others don't operate this way.
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rahimnathwani 1405 days ago
"Also doesn’t help if the exit and reentry are two different stations."

What about the same station, but on a different day?

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