ORCA Bliss and ....

For the record, RantWoman has done it. She has successfully put her monthly disabled pass onto her ORCA card. Well the proof will be in the pudding come July 1, but http://www.orcacard.com/ and RantWoman's bank both agree it should have happened.

Of course, now RantWoman has a bunch of annoying "betcha didn't think of that one" questions:

--RantWoman sometimes does projects where a bunch of disabled people need to get somewhere further out than their basic disabled pass will take them for free. RantWoman as project manager might really like a way to add money to people's ORCA card wallets so that people using ORCA could use their own disabled passes and get the appropriate disabled discount. RantWoman does not see any other way for, say, a project to pay the appropriate fare for someone's travel.

--Will people with disabled passes be able to pay cash to add money to their wallets at train stations just like everyone else? Even if this is possible, for groups of any size RantWoman thinks it would be ever so much easier to have a list of everyone's pass numbers and then to bundle adding money to their wallets with one list and one bank transaction. RantWoman thinks people who get their passes from their employers and have their employers do this kind of list-based transaction for the part usually paid for by their employer might also like to be able to add money to their wallet separately from their work. For instance, suppose RantWoman had a job and got a SoundTransit two-zone fare from her employer. But for some reason, RantWoman wanted to add money to her wallet for instance to pay a ferry fare. How would that work?

--RantWoman is not quite a total floozy, but when it comes to ADDING money to RantWoman's ORCA wallet, RantWoman would be perfectly happy to let anyone who wanted to add money to her wallet and thinks in fact that should not be too difficult. RantWoman thinks taking money OUT of her ORCA wallet should be another whole problem. Still, in RantWoman's rich fantasy life, if she suddenly had a flock of admirers adding money to her ORCA wallet, RantWoman might take into her head to want to transfer money from her ORCA wallet to pay for her monthly pass. Is that possible? Is that something anyone foresees being able to do.

RantWoman should of course just fire these questions off to the ORCA folks, but RantWoman is so stunned that her bank transaction worked that she thinks she will wait a little while before torturing anyone with all these questions.