Recent Streetsblog LA posts about TAP

Your Metrolink “System-Wide” Weekend Pass May Not work on Metro. Here Is What to Do.

By Erik Griswold | Sep 27, 2013 | 5 Comments

@Metrolink @metrolinkdiary What’s the deal? There is no TAP in my weekend pass. I need to ride the red line! pic.twitter.com/6pQY8kzNED — Rachel Cross (@anim8ted) September 15, 2013 One of the best transportation bargains on offer in Southern California is the Metrolink’s Weekend Day Pass. The agency, offers a ticket on Saturdays and Sundays that […]

A Peek at the TAP Regional Rollout, and the Future for TAP Automatic Transfers

By Dana Gabbard | Jun 6, 2013 | 6 Comments

(Note: Anyone wondering about Dana’s adventures on the Coast Starlight can find updates with pictures on Streetsblog LITE. – DN) Last week a presentation was made to the municipal operators of Los Angeles County about the mobile validators to be rolled out in the next year and a half that will finally facilitate TAP being […]

Metro Considers Moving TAP Service Center to In-House

By Dana Gabbard | May 14, 2013 | 10 Comments

Metro is in the midst of addressing one of the last Transit Access Pass bugaboos beyond the fixes I described previously: the rather poor quality of service provided by Xerox, the vendor staffing the Regional TAP Service Center. At the Metro Board Executive Management Committee meeting on Thursday they will consider an extension of the […]

TAP final solution in sight!

By Dana Gabbard | Mar 21, 2013 | 29 Comments

We are on the last lap approaching the end of my long exertions as self-appointed chief TAP (Transit Access Pass) watchdog for our region, my friends. This long troubled program has finally unequivocally turned the corner and is fast approaching victory lane. Kudos and plaudits from all quarters are raining down on David Sutton who […]

Eyes on the “Street”: TapToGo Is Down

By Damien Newton | Feb 27, 2013 | 18 Comments

(UPDATE: From the comments section, Steve Hymon from The Source writes: We belatedly got a post up at 12:45 today on the blog. For anyone reading, passes can still be purchased at https://secure.taptogo.net. Note the S after the http.!) Alert reader, and Streetsblog LA Editorial Board Member, Joel Epstein notices that the website TapToGo.net is down and has […]

Metro Diary: Three Trains, a Tourist, Some Eager-Beaver Sheriffs, and a Former Foster Child…All in the Space of an Hour

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 20, 2013 | 14 Comments

Whenever I travel in and out of LAX, I do my best to Metro my way there. It requires a forty-minute walk, three trains, and an airport shuttle ride for me to go one way. But, it’s cheap and, remarkably, it all goes down in less than two hours. And, it is never dull. For […]

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