ORCA Train whines

RantWoman clearly needs her minimum daily requirement of whining. How convenient that word has reached RantWoman that a former technical difficulty has been resolved: RantWoman now realizes that she like everyone who travels with a disabled pass on an ORCA card needs to tap her card on an ORCA reader at the beginning of her trip before boarding the light rail and again when disembarking.

The former technical difficulty was that if a disabled pass user tapped his or her card, the amount of the fare would be deducted from the ORCA card wallet even if the card showed payment for a current monthly pass. RantWoman, upon inquiring, was instructed that she could bypass tapping her ORCA card until the problem was fixed.

Credit a train expedition with Travelling Buddy and the transit rider grapevine rather than, say, an encounter with anyone verifying fare payment.

Unfortunately, if this knowledge took root organically, RantWoman's whine also arises equally organically. RantWoman thinks it is sort of a pain to have to find ORCA card readers on both ends of the trip. RantWoman thinks the ORCA card readers are, can it be?, almost too unobtrusive! RantWoman realizes she should be embarrassed to be whining so much if this is the worst problem of her day, but this is RantWoman after all!