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by 1oooqooq 723 days ago
every single transportation system that uses disposable nfc are definitely making a ton of money for the vendor.

and every transportation system that pretends to run as a profit center and not a cost center also makes ton of money for the vendors.

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In the systems I’ve ridden, there’s usually some kind of plastic stored-value card for regular riders, and the (more expensive) disposable tickets are only used by occasional riders.
A system I used in China had NFC plastic coins for occasional use, which were collected and refused by the exit barrier.
Building roads and selling cars, though, also makes an awful lot of money for the vendors.