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Larry  
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 More options Feb 28 2006, 11:28 am
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From: "Larry" <La...@LarryPerson.com>
Date: 28 Feb 2006 08:28:14 -0800
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Subject: metrocard agony!
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I've had two metrocards die within two days.  I am not happy.
http://tinyurl.com/otdsz

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Peter T. Daniels  
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 More options Feb 28 2006, 2:24 pm
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From: "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:24:01 GMT
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Subject: Re: metrocard agony!
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Larry wrote:

> I've had two metrocards die within two days.  I am not happy.
> http://tinyurl.com/otdsz

Don't carry magnets in your pocket?
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Peter T. Daniels                       gramma...@att.net

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vjp2...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com  
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 More options Feb 28 2006, 4:56 pm
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:56:38 +0000 (UTC)
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   I had more metrocards die on me in 2005 than any other year.  Well,
none ever did before.  The conclusion overall has been the machines
are degenerating, not the cards. They've been in there ten years already.

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 More options Mar 1 2006, 4:13 am
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:13:08 GMT
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I purchase a monthly unlimited metrocard, never had
one die on me yet.

"Larry" <La...@LarryPerson.com> wrote in message

news:1141144094.134601.138920@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...


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Larry  
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 More options Mar 2 2006, 9:59 am
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From: "Larry" <La...@LarryPerson.com>
Date: 2 Mar 2006 06:59:43 -0800
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I may have isolated this to a single turnstyle at the 23rd Street
downtown E Station.

http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2006/03/02/metrocard-update


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vjp2...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com  
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 More options Mar 3 2006, 12:02 pm
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:02:16 +0000 (UTC)
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Mewonders if they ever budgeted maintenance and monitoring of all
the metrocrad readers of if they figured they would all fix themselves?

Me engineer, me always thinks of problems.

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 More options Mar 4 2006, 2:52 am
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:52:13 GMT
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<vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote in message

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> Mewonders if they ever budgeted maintenance and monitoring of all
> the metrocrad readers of if they figured they would all fix themselves?

> Me engineer, me always thinks of problems.

And solutions to those problems?


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 More options Mar 4 2006, 2:14 pm
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Date: 4 Mar 2006 11:14:43 -0800
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vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> Mewonders if they ever budgeted maintenance and monitoring of all
> the metrocrad readers of if they figured they would all fix themselves?

Oh, they spend plenty maintaining the Metrocard system.  But a system
that is sufficiently complicated and finicky (three sets of read/write
heads which must be kept in exact alignment), stuff is going to happen
no matter what.

-Apr


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