San Francisco moves towards cashless society

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clipped from www.squidcard.com San Francisco has moved towards becoming a cashless society following the announcement that paper travel tickets will be phased out from the summer.  The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has confirmed that paper tickets will no longer be available from November 1st. Commuters will be able to use the city's contactless smart travel card, known as the Clipper card, to make cashless payments across the transport network.  The multi-functional card can be used on the Municipal Railway, the ferry, Golden Gate Transit, Caltrain and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Spokesman Murray Bond confirmed that some paper passes will be available beyond the November deadline for young, elderly and disabled passengers.  He said: "I think it will take the rest of this year or more to get all those folks transitioned. But at some point in time, that will cease to exist too." Passengers will still be able to purchase paper tickets online until June 22nd.

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North Coast quake California's most powerful in 6 years - San Jose Mercury News

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• North Coast quake California's most powerful in 6 years - San Jose Mercury News

  "Saturday's 6.5 temblor off California's remote North Coast was the strongest to hit the state in six years, but it caused few injuries and little major damage aside from downed chimneys, broken windows and rattled nerves. But experts say it could have been far worse. Because the epicenter was located in solid rock about 25 miles offshore — and the rural region's population is scattered and resides primarily in wood-frame housing — damage was minimal for a quake of that size. The quake was also a powerful reminder that the area is the seismic capital of our state, yet its turbulence receives far less attention than quakes in the Bay Area and Los Angeles Basin. Every year at least 80 temblors with magnitudes over 3 are recorded off the Cape Mendocino coast, according to the University of California-Berkeley Seismology Laboratory. Humboldt County officials reported that more than two dozen residents sought emergency medical care, with only one serious injury — a broken hip. The picturesque city of Eureka, the hardest-hit community in the region, reported $12.5 million in structural damage, with 14 residents displaced. "On the whole, I think we dodged a bullet," said state Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro, D-Eureka. Most Californians are anxious about the San Andreas Fault, yet the so-called Cascadia subduction zone — which created Mount Lassen — is twice the length of the San Andreas and is believed capable Advertisement Quantcast of generating larger quakes than our notorious fault."

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