A ‘smart card’ that’s not so smart The Compass Card is a smart chip card available to MTS and North County Transit District passengers for daily, multi-day and monthly transit passes.

SANDAG appears to have greatly underestimated the full cost of having a functional, user-friendly and secure Compass Card. MTS and SANDAG said estimates for achieving full compliance are around $7 ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Starting Monday, the cost of a day pass for Metropolitan Transit System buses will be upped $2 unless the passenger has a Compass Card. According to MTS, ticket machines at all ...

The bus will issue a paper card, but it must be traded in for a plastic Compass Card the same day at the MTS store Downtown. The cards can be reloaded on the bus. Riders don't have to buy the $2 ...

SAN DIEGO — Starting today, the cost of a day pass for Metropolitan Transit System buses will be upped $2 unless the passenger has a Compass Card. According to MTS, ticket machines at all ...

The launch comes almost one year after the MTS board approved a three- year ... The agencies have been under fire for the old-fashioned Compass cards dispensed at ticket machines at trolley ...

Two San Diego officials called on the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) to fix its Compass Card, a card used to pay fares on the city's buses and trolleys. At a Tuesday press conference ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) is rolling out a new payment card system. The old Compass Card program is being replaced by PRONTO cards. MTS is holding 50 ...

Starting Wednesday, riders were able to store up to $300 dollars on Compass, which is a reusable plastic card issued by MTS. In the past, riders who didn’t use mass transit frequently enough to ...

Under Compass, we had validators and we encouraged people ... not including other credit card merchant fees. The MTS board will formally take up the issue in June. If MTS gets the green light, it’d ...

Less trumpeted is the fact that riders who use the system’s Compass Card to pay their way have been ... seven years later after a glitchy start. MTS touted a new, imminent function in 2013 ...

But there was no formal announcement. When MTS switched from the Compass card to the Pronto system in 2020, they started letting riders know about the change an entire year in advance. There were ...