Metro: Rail passes could move to SmarTrip

Published February 24, 2012 5:00am ET



Metro can make rail passes available on plastic SmarTrip cards instead of less reliable and infrequently used paper cards, the agency said in an about-face.

It now plans to make the current seven-day rail passes available on SmarTrip cards in April.

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