[anigbrowl]

Not to mention the need to add 5c to your ticket if you want it back at the end of the journey - say for expense or tax deduction purposes if you are making occasional but expensive long-distance trips for work assignments. I've spent >$300 on BART fares for a month-long project before, and if you exit the station with the exact fare on your ticket, there goes your receipt.

[dangrover]

Every time I've used BART, in addition to emitting a ticket, the machine emits a receipt out of the same orifice.

[anigbrowl]

For plastic yes, you're right. I tend to use cash for transit fares, I don't know why. I must have some mental block about it, because I'll even leave the station to go use the ATM, then come back and make change and then put the $5 bill in and grumble about having a pocket full of quarters. Oh well, I fail.

[dangrover]

Ah, that's a weird quirk.

One time I got stuck inside a BART station because the machines on the outside take plastic, but the ones on the inside are cash-only. I was 40¢ short and had no cash. The person at the station let me through though.

Another one of their design decisions that makes no sense :)