Governor Maura Healey descended the flight of stairs at Park Street Station on Thursday morning to try the MBTA’s new “tap-to-go” payment method for buses and subways.
She was holding a press conference at the station where the occasional T worker or rider passed by the crowd. Healey said the contactless payment modernized the T and made it easier to use and more accessible for riders.
“You don’t have to hunt for change anymore,” she said.
I use the MBTA relatively frequently, so I’m glad they’re finally joining the current century. But the only people paying in change are people who are homeless or otherwise can’t use cards, so that remark was kind of tone-deaf.