Recent Streetsblog LA posts about TAP

Touring Metro’s “Lab” with David Sutton, Director of TAP Operations

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 21, 2012 | 35 Comments

“Did you TAP your card?” I asked my friend. “Yeah, I did it over there,” he pointed, annoyed, at the ticket machine where he had just added money to his card. “But you didn’t TAP it,” I said, indicating the validator confronting us as we stepped up onto the Blue Line platform at the Washington/Grand […]

More Local Agencies Dealing with TAP, But Metrolink Remains Elusive and a Surfliner Update

By Dana Gabbard | Nov 20, 2012 | 10 Comments

Here are updates on two issues I have been paying close attention to: TAP and the LOSSAN takeover of the Surfliner. With no fanfare several of the Los Angeles County municipal bus operators (including Foothill and Santa Monica Big Blue Bus) as of November 1st are providing paper TAP cards when patrons purchase transfers to […]

TAP Solution for Metrolink 2.0

By Dana Gabbard | Nov 14, 2012 | 4 Comments

My last Metro Transit Access Pass (TAP) related post detailed the vexing situation regarding TAP and Metrolink’s patrons and the ongoing inability of Metro and Metrolink to find a means for Metrolink riders to be able to pass through the Red and Purple Line station gates after they are locked. I couldn’t hide my incredulity […]

The latest Metrolink TAP solution

By Dana Gabbard | Oct 11, 2012 | 29 Comments

When you look over the list of 90 some posts I have contributed to this blog over the past few years, certain recurrent topics become apparent like the Wilshire bus lanes and the statewide bullet train project. Recently I have been quite involved in covering the effort by local agencies to assume management of the […]

Metro Continues to Expand TAP Program. Complaints Still Common

By Damien Newton | Feb 15, 2011 | 30 Comments

It seems that every time that Streetsblog takes a moment to discuss the Transit Access Pass (TAP) Program, it’s because someone is complaining about it. From its initial rollout, the program to provide fare cards that could be used as monthly passes on Metro and other local carriers, or put simply provide a universal fare […]

TAP is being fixed, but the turnstile debacle will not go away

By Dana Gabbard | Sep 2, 2010 | 31 Comments

Union Station. Photo: Jim91773/Flickr You might have noticed there has recently been much media attention centered on the problems of Metro’s TAP system and the gating of some of the Metro Rail stations. It all started when reporter Troy Anderson at the Daily News stumbled across this long festering situation that has been the object […]