BC Ferries refuses woman 10 cents short on ferry fare

No one?

Even if "the ferry" can't accommodate issuing a ticket with insufficient funds, there wasn't one single person -- one human -- who would give this young lady ten lousy cents? Even the hard-hearted ticket seller?

Damn.

I guess people are selfish. I would have coughed up a dime for the kid.

The company needs to make it possible for people to add cash to what's on their card...OR, to cash in their card.

I read some of the comments at the linked article - some of whom made a suggestion that matched my initial impulse: just give her 10 cents and be done with it. In actuality, it's probably not that simple, as I cannot imagine even the most hard-hearted individual refusing to help in this instance. The rules probably don't allow for mixed methods of payment - not unlike trying to get through a toll booth with a combination of cash and an E-Z Pass transponder.

For one thing, the financial bar is set too high for low-income individuals, as the article states that a minimum $60 is necessary to recharge the ferry card. That's even higher than the minimum purchase for recharging an E-Z Pass. For another, there appears to be no procedure for overriding an occurrence like the one in this article. I can imagine that the poobahs who administer this fee collection program believe it would be abused. Can't trust those peons who collect the fares, yunno.

hesitate doing it again. Can't believe there wasn't one person there to give her 10p.

...due a $.05 fare increase by the Metropolitan Transit Authority in Boston.



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