We have good news and bad news on this Valentine’s Day. First, the good news: We’ve had an overwhelming response to our call for Q Boosters, and the program has exceeded expectations. We have more than 1,000 Q Boosters. The bad news: We are not taking any more names. For those of you who have signed up and are still ...

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about the Q Card on this blog, so we thought we’d go to the top guy in charge of the Q Card, Erik Oistad/vice president/chief information officer in our Information Technology department. Oistad has an electrical engineering degree, MBA and 31 years of experience in IT. Before joining METRO two years ...

  You’ve seen the posters on the rail and you’ve seen the brochures: The Q Card is coming. But many of you have wondered when will old passes be discontinued, replaced by the Q Card. METRO is currently testing the Q Card system to make sure it’s ready for you. We have been recruiting “Q Boosters” to use the ...

  Starting next month, METRO will begin the rollout of the Q Card.    The Q Card – which stands for “quick card” - has embedded in it a tiny computer chip and an antenna that will keep track of how much money you load onto the card and how many rides you take. METRO isn’t the only transit system ...