SMART, DDOT announce unified payment system: Dart

[etbusch]

https://detroitmi.gov/news/smart-ddo...public-transit

This is definitely a step in the right direction, and places our public transit in line with other major cities in convenience.

[Tig3rzhark]

This will be something great to look forward to. I'm willing to wait a few months for the mobile payment app. However, a great way of promoting the payment system is to provide a reloadable feature to these cards.

Of course, that's a suggestion I will place before DDOT for community input tomorrow.

[dtowncitylover]

A major step forward! I'm looking forward to purchasing a pass when they're available.

[Scottathew]

I'm a bus user and 100% for this change. I think it would make even more sense to have all buses run by a single entity.

[cramerro]

This will be something great to look forward to. I'm willing to wait a few months for the mobile payment app. However, a great way of promoting the payment system is to provide a reloadable feature to these cards.

Of course, that's a suggestion I will place before DDOT for community input tomorrow.

The regional 31 day Dart pass will be a "tap" card rather than mag-stripe. This is the first step to having reload-able, account-based passes in the future, which is on the radar of SMART and DDOT moving forward.

[Tig3rzhark]

After going to the DDOT community input meeting this week, I found out that the TAP cars will not be reload-able.

I hope that in the future that a reload-able feature is added to these cards in the future, but at the moment these cards will not be reload-able.

Also, the mobile app will be available to all passengers during the summer.