I'd gone to this museum probably 5-6 times and every time it was amazing. Grateful to have the opportunity but I'm so saddened that it'll be closing for good. I wish Gates, Bezos, or any rich tech billionaire would've stepped in and tried to buy it out.
It's a fucking disgrace that none of the tech giants in our city care enough to support such a legendary museum. They will blow billions on game studio acquisitions, AI deals and sports arenas, but won't keep their own history alive.
Has anyone tried this yet? I'm tempted to convert my physical card over but I'm worried about my phone dying, etc.
Update: I bought an additional card (Wallet only) and it's working well so far for the light rail. I also added in a multi ride ferry pass and it correctly** handled that as well. Pretty happy about this so far, aside from being so very late.
** The screen on the turnstile says there's an error, but it correctly deducts from the pass and lets me through. The wallet app doesn't actually list pass uses remaining but myorca does.
I've loaded cash to my phone but still haven't actually used it yet. I'm going to carry the card as backup just in case but tbh how many times has your phone died on you just as you were boarding the teianor whatever? I feel like it's probably fine to just go full digital
Did the switchover this morning & I will note that it also works if you have a RRFP (Regional Reduced Fare Permit). I've been using the My ORCA app on my phone since it first became publicly available, so having the card in digitized form is just icing on the cake for me. I'll also add that there's an option in Google Wallet to store your digital card in your Google account temporarily if you're in the process of upgrading your device... it can be found by tapping the Details button at the top after tapping on the entry for your digital ORCA card.
How many people die on those roads who would live if they didn’t have to commute? How many pounds of tire end up in the sound killing salmon and orcas? How many pedestrians are those commuters going to kill? How many cyclists? How many kids get asthma from the exhaust? How much could we delay the most catastrophic impacts of climate change if we didn’t try to force people artificially in to the office?
If you want tax dollars you don’t need to force people in to cars. You need to make your city more accessible by bikes and mass transit. Those numbers are never coming back, and they absolutely shouldn’t. Adapt or die.
Make coming into the office worth it. Period, end of sentence.
Here, I have my own quiet, private office, a ginormous monitor, a comfortable chair, and zero commute. I can make my own lattes, eat on the cheap, and take care of what I need to take care of while listening to a meeting.
My experience coming into the office is an open, noisy floorplan, a monitor designed for ants, a nice-enough but ancient chair, and 75 minutes each way gone from my life—to say nothing of the $20 gone from my wallet for the privilege. The free coffee is dogshit, the food is expensive, and I can barely get a bathroom break as I’m locked into so many meetings.
I’d happily work from the office if it had literally anything to recommend it over WFH.
Councillor Nelson, the solution is simple. Get employers to pay enough for the time people spend commuting and the commuters will come back. That’s what the “market” is saying, businesses whining about it to you isn’t going to change that. Transit oriented development can also improve commuting and get more jobs downtown.
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