10.20.07

Tokens!

Posted in Learn at 4:23 pm by utarant

I don’t ride quite every day so I don’t purchase a pass. My employer will buy me either a monthly transit pass or a parking pass to the Gateway (where I work). My schedule is just unreliable enough that I take the offered parking pass and pay for each bus trip I make with cash. Let me say that $1.60 is a very inconvenient amount to carry around. And then sometimes I spend the change on a snack or something, forgetting my bus fare obligation. Enter the token. The token is an easy way to carry around a convenient, 1 coin, non-spendable fare. I like the token. It only makes sense to purchase the token in bulk so that I do not have to carry around $1.60 to exchange for it before every transit ride. Besides, there are precious few stops where they can be purchased. If you purchase them at one of the handful of Trax stops that dispense them, you must take your chance that the machine is stocked and that it has change for you. Looking for the address of the downtown SLC UTA office so I could more conveniently buy tokens and get correct change, I searched the www.utabus.com website and learned that I can purchase tokens at many grocery store service counters around the valley. Now this is convenient! Not only easy to get some at my local grocery in South Jordan, but they are for sale in quantities of 10! Only $14.25 for the complete set of ten.

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