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A new ORCA card costs $3; [4] prior to May 2022, this fee was $5, one of the highest prices for a public transportation smart card in the United States. [47] The King County Council has requested a study on the impact of either eliminating the $5 fee or adding $5 in value to all newly purchased cards. [ 48 ]
Pronto also introduced Best Fare, a fare capping system that credits each single-ride fare towards the cost of a daily or monthly pass. [ 1 ] In addition to the credit card-sized Pronto card, passengers can also pay fares for transit services with the Pronto mobile app, and with their Visa, Mastercard, or Discover credit or debit card.
The regional ORCA card was introduced as an integrated smart card for transit agencies in the Puget Sound region on April 20, 2009, [156] allowing users to load monthly passes and value through an e-purse web interface.
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In October 2019, the monorail began accepting ORCA cards, the regional transit payment system, after five years of negotiations and a study over fare integration; [22] [23] since May 2023, youth ORCA cards are charged a $0 fare on the monorail as part of a statewide program to provide free transit for riders aged 18 years or younger. [24]
In 2014, California Assembly member Richard Bloom introduced the assembly bill 2140 known as the Orca Welfare and Safety Act. [7] In April 2014 there was a live hearing in the Committee of Water, Parks, and Wildlife where there was no initial decision and the bill was set aside for an interim study. [7]
For 50 minutes, multiple pods of orcas worked together, hunting off the California coast. Two orcas, the matriarchs among the group of about 30 whales, on April 2 circled a 20-foot-long minke ...
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