[NFBSea] FW: Fare Paid Zone markings and removal of ORCA card readers from downtown tunnel stations

[jacobstruiksma at gmail.com]

Passing on for your information.

Fare Paid Zone markings and removal of ORCA card readers from downtown
tunnel stations

 

Hello accessibility stakeholders, 

 

For those who ride Link light rail (1 Line), as part of Sound Transit's
broader fare engagement reforms, we're making the Fare Paid Zones where
riders are expected to have valid fare to ride more recognizable, starting
with the downtown Link stations.  Fare Paid Zone signage and markings,
similar to what riders see at University District, Roosevelt and Northgate
stations, will be put in place at the rest of the Link stations, starting
with Westlake, University Street, Pioneer Square and International
District/Chinatown stations.  ORCA card readers will eventually be removed
from the platform levels of these stations.  The project begins this week.

 

More information about this change can be found in this Platform blog post
on the Sound Transit website:

https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/saying-goodbye-to-card-readers-pl
atforms-downtown-link-stations

 

The photo at the top of the blog post shows "Pay to Enter" signs installed
above the entrance to the elevator leading down to the platform, as well as
above the walkway at the top of the escalator and stairs.  Yellow tactile
floor tiles are installed in front of the elevator entrance (with the ORCA
card reader at one end of the tactile floor tile threshold, to the right of
the elevator call button), and across the walkway at the top of the
escalator and stairs (with ORCA card readers located at both ends of the
yellow tactile floor tile threshold).  This is representative of what will
be installed at the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel stations.

 

The overhead signs and yellow tactile floor tiles are being installed to
mark crossing the Fare Paid Zone threshold on the mezzanine levels of the
Westlake, University Street, and Pioneer Square stations, and on the street
level of the International District/Chinatown station.  

 

Stay tuned for future information on when ORCA card readers will be removed
from the platform levels of the tunnel stations.  In the meantime, riders
are encouraged to start getting in the habit of tapping on and off at the
Fare Paid Zone thresholds.  

 

Best regards,

 

Beth Hamby (she/her)

Senior Program Manager-Accessibility Services

Passenger Experience

Desk: 206.717.9075

 

Sound Transit

 <http://www.soundtransit.org/> www.soundtransit.org



 

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