Send me some money and I'll add it to the card.

I might be willing to add money to the card if online features were available. I'm not willing to travel to a participating retail location to add money to the card.

I won't throw away the card. I'll save it until the system goes live.

You disabled comments on the Q Card where you touted the discounts for riders 65-69 as an advantage of the new fare structure. What advantage is this, please, since it represents an annual fare increase of more than 1,000% for senior citizens who use Metro with any regularity and used the previous annual pass available for students and seniors 62-69? While an increase in fares certainly is justifiable, this seems a beet beyond a reasonable annual percentage increase. I can pretty much promise that my income is not going to be increasing to more than 10 times its current level this year to keep pace with the Metro fare increase for these groups. Why can't Metro continue to provide reasonably priced annual passes for students, seniors and the disabled? The Q Card certainly is able to be programmed this way.

I've been a Metro booster for a long time, but a fare increase this large -- and the many fruitless requests I have made for someone at Metro to provide a justification for a fare increase this large on any rider segment -- is pushing me a lot closer to the anti-Metro sentiment that seems to be growing in many areas of the community.

And certainly, the card balance should be able to be updated online rather than only at a retail establishment once the card is in the rider's hand.

One thing that needs to be addressed.  The beep when it accepts the fare is nowhere near loud enough.  I have boarded several times, swiped my card and had the driver look to verify that I was a Q-Card person after I continued towards the back of the bus.  I stopped the other day to chat with the driver (Yes, I know we aren't supposed to :) ) and she informed me that she just assumes Q-Card people have paid as she can't hear the beep from the Q-Card reader over the bus noise.

Is this where we are supposed to offer details that we compile on our 'Q Booster Rider's Log' notepad that Metro sent us for being a Q Booster? I don't see a drop box for the rider's log forms on the buses... Need to provide this feedback somehow!

Went to Q-card training and the units demonstrated made an ear-piercing shriek when used. The units on the bus,however emit a whimper. Gotta watch the lights to see if anything happened..

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Why don't they just have it beep with the same noise as the current TPUs?  Maybe the 'be-beep' sound the current TPUs make when the driver current TPU sound, but the same beep afterwards.  Either way the volume needs to be able to be heard more than 2" away.

And the light and display should be made to stay on long enough to read what it say without a photographic memory.