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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Metro employees have been enabling the behavior for years.  My kids have DC One cards.  Metro employees smile at them and open the turnstiles and wave them through.  Bus drivers wave them on without asking them to tap their cards.  My kids cards don't work.  They never have.

So now all of a sudden metro wants to crack down?  I'm all for it.  Metro is bleeding money and DCPS should pay its fair share.  But there's been NO outreach on this aside from the "call this number if your child's DC One Card doesn't work" and ONE email from my kids' school.  Half the kids boarding the metro in the morning still aren't showing their cards and no one is telling them they need a card in 10 days.  So you are talking thousands of kids being turned away from school transportation.

And you know where the real shitshow is going to happen?  With the private school kids who will now have to pay to go to school.  No more free rides. [/quote]

I imagine the 'crackdown' will happen station by station, bus line by bus line because there aren't enough metro police to do it otherwise.

What have you done to get your kids cards working? Gone online to check the account? Called the help line? Gone to the farr and machine two days in a row?

They don't work by magic - you need to do a couple things. [/quote]

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