I've wondered about this very thing. Good to know it can be done.
> Wonder why this isn't advertised?
There's a lot of things about Snapper that it would be good to know...
This happened on my bus to work today too. The passengers insisted it
would deduct two fares, and the bus was delayed for several minutes
while the driver worked it out.
> Wonder why this isn't advertised?
I asked the Horse's Mouth, Bruce Emson, ceo of NZ Bus and he replied:
"We have deliberately not promoted this as a key feature at this time,
because we want to give our drivers every opportunity to become fully
familiar with the system and do not want to slow down the boarding
process."
So now you know!
And I thought this was a fishing story!
Some people need more training than others... I was behind someone this
morning who waved her card in the air in the general vicinity of the reader,
got an error "X", repeated the process and got another "X", then a woman
already on the bus said, in that special voice reserved for backwards
children, "press it against the fish..."
Those fashionably glossy-faced readers are going to get scuffed up very
quickly.
The "Tag on, tag off" slogan is poorly chosen, in my opinion, as is the name
Snapper. To match the slogan, it ought to be "Tagger". :-)
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