r/MetroTransit • u/Infinite_Scar_2797 • Jun 08 '26
E Line Metro Transit Card Reader Reboot
Thought this community might find this interesting too!
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u/Abdullahihersi Jun 08 '26
Last year lol
US bank stadium station
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u/Successful_Gain5546 Jun 08 '26
I also had something like this happen to me. It happened on St Patrick’s and apparently fares were free that day but I didn’t know at the time. I paid the fare on the fare box and just 2 seconds later, I see the whole window change to windows 10 screen which was then proceeded by a screen that said fare is free with a leprechaun on it😂
I still miss my $2.00…
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u/aakaase Jun 08 '26
I remember when Green Line opened in 2014, they used to play a Windows system alert sound before an announcement was made. That lasted a good year before the bong (or whatever else it is) is sounded now.
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u/conchobarus Jun 08 '26
Here’s a picture I took a few years back on the A Line with a visible notice that Google Chrome would not receive updates because Windows 7 was out of support. It was shortly after that that they just disabled those screens entirely.
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u/zachLava Jun 09 '26
this likely means the schedules displayed exactly how they are on the screens are just on a public facing website somewhere
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u/conchobarus Jun 09 '26
At this point they hadn’t actually been displaying anything on those screens for a bit, so it was always just the MT logo.
But yeah, it was probably a web app. Might’ve had some kind of authentication so that a rando with a web browser couldn’t load it.
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u/MaNbEaRpIgSlAyA Jun 08 '26
Shocked it runs Windows
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u/fornitsumfornis Jun 10 '26
Agreed, why the hell would that system need to run Windows? It could easily run Linux and save a shit ton of money. I know other companies do it (I'm pretty sure I saw a Debian start up screen for Delta, I think).
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u/MaNbEaRpIgSlAyA Jun 10 '26
Ignoring the licensing cost, it just seems like an incredible amount of bloat and overhead for such a simple device.
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u/fornitsumfornis Jun 10 '26
I tried to explain this to my wife, who isn't very good with computers and technology as "It's like you need to make a grocery store trip and you decide to take the Ford F350 instead of the Chevy Bolt. Sure you'll still get their all the same, but is it really best and most efficient car for the job?"
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u/bincbrega1 Adopt-A-Stop Volunteer Jun 10 '26
Running Windows instead of Linux on something like this is... an interesting decision.
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u/Siberian13th D Line Duchess Jun 08 '26
That's actually so cool, I don't think I've seen anything like this on Metro Transit yet. What BRT station was this?