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I’m not gonna lie: 1988 was a terrific year. My friends and I permed our hair and fell in love with Tom Hanks in Big. Ah, good times.
You know what else was totally rad? This great photo by Octoferret of Fast Passes from 1987 and 1988, found in our Flickr pool.
I’m not gonna lie: 1988 was a terrific year. My friends and I permed our hair and fell in love with Tom Hanks in Big. Ah, good times.
You know what else was totally rad? This great photo by Octoferret of Fast Passes from 1987 and 1988, found in our Flickr pool.
Photo by chuckbiscuito
But Akit has awesomely dug more information, and he reports the following:
So there you have it, folks. The die-hard among you can get the $60 Muni-only pass in lieu of the then-extinct $70 Muni-and-BART-within-SF pass. You know, if you want …
Photo by Steve Rhodes
Rumors of “no more paper Fast Passes” have been flying around on Twitter. We knew it was coming (thanks to SFAppeal’s Chris Roberts) but we hadn’t heard about any official date from SFMTA until this week, when we found an announcement on SFMTA’s purchasing page:
The SFMTA is moving to TransLink! Online sales of monthly paper passes will end after June 22, 2010 (July pass sales period)
June 22, as in, less than two weeks from now?
We emailed SFMTA and talked to spokesperson Murray Bond. Here’s the skinny:
The last day to purchase monthly paper Fast Passes online at sfmta.com is June 22. They can also be purchased online at Translink.org through June 16 and thereafter at Clippercard.com. The paper passes will be phased out in October and customers must load them on a Clipper card beginning November 1.
You’ll need a Translink/Clipper card before November 1. To get one, see SFMTA’s site for a list of TransLink/Clipper card giveaways. If you don’t get the card at one of these giveaways, the cards are $5 (unless you choose the Autoload option).
If you use Wage Works, CommuterCheck, or some other employer-benefit system to buy your pass, you’ll need to tell your employer-benefit system to start loading your Fast Pass onto your Clipper Card before November 1.
Translink is changing its name to Clipper on June 16.
So, there it is. There will be no more paper Fast Passes after October 2010. A long, colorful era will come to an end.
More questions? Translink’s FAQ has some good answers. We’re sure many Muni Diaries readers will offer further nuggets of advice here, so have at it in comments, please.
Here’s a look at Fast Passes through the years (photos after the jump).
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Stranger things have appeared on the pages of Craigslist …
SFist reports on a suspicious missing element on March Fast Passes. The fare increases will be coupled by a hike in the price of the monthly passes beginning in July.
(oh, and when will all you prominent bloggers stop all-capping Muni, eh? it’s not, and never has been, an acronym. the persnickety copy editor in me is talking to you, Greg and Brock. — Jeff)