Riding MRT in Taipei with credit card

Lots of stuff cost under $49

Then maybe you need to adjust your spending habits. Cause this never happens lol

We shouldn’t have to suffer because of your inability to use cash.

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Just flew to the UK. Want a trolly for your luggage? 2 quid and to make matters worse, touchless payment only. Don’t worry, get some chocolate from the vending machine to cheer you up. Touchless payment again. Annoying.

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I would still touch it to defy the establishment. :point_right:

Contactless not touchless i should have said.

Annoying either way

Q) If one has one of those credit cards with an embedded easycard, what happens on tap after this is implemented?

I do believe they will split the readers, so different sensors for different cards:

  • one for easycard/ipass
  • one for credit/debit cards
  • qr code reader

Like it’s already on the TAOYUAN airport MRT

The problem is all these credit and debit cards with embedded RFID chip that makes it harder to use your easy card because the reader gets a stroke when it sees more than 1 RFID devices. Better solution is integrate it all into one card. Or lots of aluminum foil pouches.

There’s different areas on the turnstyle for the various payment types;

No it doesn’t.

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The Tamsui LRT is the same way.

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But wouldn’t be amazed if the high echelons of Taipei bureaucracy screw up this. Have 0 confidence in this administration

I’m not sure I can have confidence in any administration, but at least there are infrastructures that works.

not of their doing.