Comments on: StarMetro Welcomes State-of-the-Art Fare System

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:40:44 +0000

Even though on the surface it seems totally criminal to pour more money into our failing bus system during a time when ridership is down to a trickle due to our elected nannies death grip on our local economy we had to go through with this expenditure in order to trigger the kickbacks from the company that makes and installs these credit card readers.
A lot of elected nannies and other local usual suspects are depending on these kickbacks which may trickle down in the local economy and help out a lot of you common folk. We have spoken. Nothing to see here.

By: Thomas C. Hooker

Thomas C. Hooker — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:51:59 +0000

In reply to Hope.

But Hope!!! It is “State of The Art”!!!! Where is Ron Garrison these days?

https://medium.com/@rongarrison/ronald-garrison-the-transportation-wizard-1f8adc50593d

And this. Star Metro is winning.

By Michelle Corbet – Reporter, Memphis Business Journal
Jan 27, 2017, 1:59pm CST Updated Jan 27, 2017, 2:16pm CST
Ron Garrison, CEO of the Memphis Area Transit Authority, resigned late Thursday before being named Friday, Jan. 27, among 42 people arrested on prostitution-related charges.

The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) issued a media advisory at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, for a specially called MATA Board of Commissioners meeting at 4:30 p.m. in a seventh floor conference room at City Hall.

By: SLP

SLP — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:37:34 +0000

So which Genfare System did they go with and how does it work. What type of payment will the box accept?

Will it improve the service schedule of the buses, so that they are on time, or that if one has reached the max number of passengers for social distancing, a rider doesn’t have to wait 45 minutes to an hour for the next bus?

By: Hope

Hope — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:34:35 +0000

Will there be a special bus that makes nonstops to the new marijuana dispensary that the city commission approved recently next to a school at Tennessee and Monroe?

Wasn’t that project Gary Yordon’s project?

By: TONY

TONY — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:57:22 +0000

OK, this article is a little confusing………. WHO is the City working with, the CDTA (Capital District Transportation Authority in Albany, NY), or with the Company that makes Genfare?
Because the Capital District Transportation Authority in Albany, NY says that they “WENT” with Genfare.

AND = Thomas G. Guggisberg, CDTA’s Director of Information Technology, ensured us that they “WORKED CLOSLY WITH” Genfare to develop a fare system ”

Please tell me that Gary Yordon and Sean Pitman had nothing to do with this………