Metro officials are rethinking their decision to reduce SmarTrip card prices and to do away with negative card balances.

Carol Dillon Kissal, Metro’s deputy general manager, told the Metro Riders’ Advisory Council that lowering the card price from $5 to $2.50 – a drop the Metro board of directors approved earlier this year – has presented some “tricky issues,” prompting Kissal and her staff to develop new options.

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