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The FAQ is also internally inconsistent — the sentence immediately after the list of four still reads \"any combination of the three public transit systems\" — and it carries no publication date, so \"now\" cannot be pinned to a moment.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-4250eaad5e4e328d", "field": "snippet", "text": "reached the Dallas Streetcar on 27 July 2020 on Vix Technology's account-based Vix Pulse back office", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-13ab0f77a5570597" ], "supportNote": "Vix Technology's release says the streetcar \"payment capability, launched on schedule on July 27th, 2020\", required Vix validation devices across the streetcar fleet, and that \"DART's fare collection system is built on Vix Pulse, an innovative multi-modal, multi-operator platform that unifies account-based ticketing, mobile, and contactless payments\".", "caveat": "The date marks the streetcar's addition, not the card's debut: the same release says the system was \"Already deployed on bus and light rail services across the city\" before July 2020. The account is the supplier's, and the release itself was issued on 9 September 2020.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2e6c2ca4a2179d5c", "field": "snippet", "text": "with open-loop bank cards and digital wallets added across buses, rail and streetcar on 23 September 2021", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-03c1ff0263704726" ], "supportNote": "A DART release carried by Mass Transit on 23 September 2021 announces that DART \"now accepts contactless payment on all DART vehicles\" and locates the readers precisely: \"GoPass Tap readers are located on the platforms at rail stations, onboard DART buses and on Dallas Streetcar vehicles.\" Accepted cards are Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover, plus Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Fitbit Pay.", "caveat": "The release announces the date of the full launch; it does not say whether every reader went live that day.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-ac07f27368d37f7e", "field": "snippet", "text": "Registered cards and registered bank cards are fare-capped", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6dae3e11609fecdc", "src-03c1ff0263704726" ], "supportNote": "DART's June 2023 release states \"GoPass Tap card registration is required to participate in fare capping\", and the 2021 contactless release makes the same condition for bank cards: \"DART riders can enjoy the benefits of fare capping by registering their contactless payment method at GoPass.org.\"", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-9229ccab8c5fb68e", "field": "snippet", "text": "DART stated in June 2023 that a rider would never pay more than $6.00 in a calendar day or $96.00 in a calendar month", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6dae3e11609fecdc" ], "supportNote": "DART's release of 30 June 2023 says: \"After spending $6.00 on any given day, customers will not be charged another fare until the next day. Riders with a registered GoPass Tap Card will never spend more than the total cost of a monthly pass ($96.00) in a calendar month.\"", "caveat": "These are the standard adult ceilings of 2023. The same agency's page for the means-tested Discount GoPass Tap card sets lower ones — a Reduced Day Pass and a Reduced Monthly Pass — and the standard single fare has since risen from $3 to $4, so the ceilings may no longer be current.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-a239db8cab3514b9", "field": "snippet", "text": "The cap is gated behind registration", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6dae3e11609fecdc" ], "supportNote": "DART's June 2023 release states plainly: \"GoPass® Tap card registration is required to participate in fare capping, to recover account balance if the card is lost, and to receive future incentives from DART.\"", "caveat": "The release states the condition in general terms; the sentence describing the daily ceiling in the same text carries no registration qualifier, and DART's page for the means-tested Discount card presents capping as automatic while tying registration to recovering a lost balance.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-c3e315a5f157fc86", "field": "snippet", "text": "a card bought with cash at a 7-Eleven or ACE Cash Express counter earns nothing until its owner creates an online account", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-13ab0f77a5570597", "src-6dae3e11609fecdc", "src-458d50364d7668c5" ], "supportNote": "The Vix release names the outlets: the card \"can be purchased and reloaded at 7-Eleven, ACE Cash Express, Tom Thumb and Fiesta Mart locations in the DART Service Area\". DART's own FAQ explains the point of the cash channel — \"the new version of GoPass has a cash-to-mobile feature that allows you to add value to your GoPass Wallet fare payment account with cash at participating retail locations\" — and DART's June 2023 release makes registration a precondition of capping.", "caveat": "Only the 2020 supplier release names these two chains; DART's 2023 announcement speaks of \"local retail locations\" in all thirteen cities without listing them, so the named outlets may have changed. \"Earns nothing\" describes the loss of the cap, not of the fare value loaded on the card.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-70cf088183d67064", "field": "snippet", "text": "in September 2025 DART's board cut seven bus routes", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-64c2a8fb887f6d70" ], "supportNote": "The Dallas Observer reports that \"the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) board of directors has elected to adopt proposed service changes\" and names them: \"Seven routes, 209, 225, 254, 255, 305, 378, and 383, will be eliminated.\"", "caveat": "11 September 2025 is the date of the article, not of the vote: the same report places the decision at \"the meeting on Tuesday night\", which was 9 September 2025.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-183cf9a9ddf87992", "field": "snippet", "text": "stretched fixed-route headways from 15 to 20 minutes", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-64c2a8fb887f6d70" ], "supportNote": "The Dallas Observer writes: \"The fixed bus route frequency will be reduced from every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes.\"", "caveat": "The report gives the new headway for the fixed bus network as a whole and does not say how many routes were on a fifteen-minute frequency before the change.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-41dcfc051011ad6f", "field": "snippet", "text": "a rise in the standard single ride from $3 to $4", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-64c2a8fb887f6d70" ], "supportNote": "The Dallas Observer reports the fare decision: the board approved \"increasing curb-to-curb paratransit fees by 50 cents to $4 per one-way ride and increasing the cost of a single-ride standard ticket from $3 to $4.\"", "caveat": "The same report dates this approval to a separate, earlier board decision — \"In August, the board approved\" — rather than to the September vote on routes and frequencies.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-8ca779394199c858", "field": "snippet", "text": "an audit found Plano had paid in $109.6m in 2023 against $44.6m of service received", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-64c2a8fb887f6d70" ], "supportNote": "The Dallas Observer writes: \"A recent report, conducted by a third-party auditor, unveiled that Plano contributed far more than their return on investment. In 2023, the city paid more than $109.6 million but only received $44.6 million back in services.\"", "caveat": "The report names neither the auditor nor the study, and gives no date for it beyond \"recent\". It also says Plano paid \"more than\" $109.6 million. The same paragraph records the opposite balance for Dallas, which contributed $407.8 million and received $690.5 million in service.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-881e6575575cf846", "field": "impact", "text": "DART reported more than 1.1 million app downloads and more than 10 million ticket sales between the September 2013 launch and November 2019", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6b41d0c7bf801cd6", "src-c6fa3f42d20e7b5c" ], "supportNote": "DART's own news post of 11 November 2019 says: \"The app launched in 2013 and touts more than 1.1 million downloads and more than 10 million ticket sales.\" Government Technology dates that launch to 16 September 2013.", "caveat": "These are running totals reported by the operator in a post celebrating an industry award; the figures are not broken down by year or agency, and downloads count installations rather than riders. The 2013 launch month comes from a different source than the totals.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2435b09df2c3327b", "field": "impact", "text": "Registered GoPass Tap cards and registered contactless bank cards are capped at $6.00 per calendar day and $96.00 per calendar month (DART, June 2023)", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6dae3e11609fecdc", "src-03c1ff0263704726" ], "supportNote": "The June 2023 DART release gives both ceilings for the card and makes registration the condition; the 2021 DART release carried by Mass Transit gives the same two figures for bank cards: \"after spending a total of $6 on any one day, customers won't be charged another fare until the following day. With a registered contactless payment method, riders will never spend more than the total cost of a monthly pass ($96) in a calendar month.\"", "caveat": "Both ceilings are the standard adult ones; the means-tested Discount card is held to lower reduced-fare ceilings instead.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-3eb1f97c75fff1bc", "field": "impact", "text": "unregistered cards get no cap", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6dae3e11609fecdc" ], "supportNote": "This is the reverse of DART's own condition: \"GoPass® Tap card registration is required to participate in fare capping.\" A card that is not registered does not take part.", "caveat": "DART states the requirement positively; no listed source describes what an unregistered card is charged, so the absence of a cap is read from the condition rather than reported directly.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-01353ab55855839f", "field": "impact", "text": "A card needs $6.00 to activate and holds at most $200.00 in stored value", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6dae3e11609fecdc" ], "supportNote": "DART's June 2023 release says: \"To activate your GoPass Tap Card, a minimum of $6.00 must be added to the card. However, you may store up to $200 on your GoPass Tap Card.\"", "caveat": "These are the 2023 terms for the standard card; DART's page for the Discount card gives the same $6 minimum but describes it as two Reduced Day Passes.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-e71d74b2163bdf5a", "field": "lesson", "text": "GoPass carries four operators while DART's own tap card was still arriving on its own streetcar", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-458d50364d7668c5", "src-13ab0f77a5570597" ], "supportNote": "DART's FAQ lists four operators on the app — DART, Trinity Metro, Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority and DCTA — while the supplier's release records the Tap card reaching the Dallas Streetcar on 27 July 2020.", "caveat": "No listed source dates the fourth operator's arrival, so the two events cannot be shown to overlap: the FAQ carries no date, and DART's own post of November 2019 still named only the three North Texas services.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-ca185e41d1fa7437", "field": "lesson", "text": "a fare cap that is only granted to riders with an online account quietly withholds the benefit from the cash customers the retail loading network was built to serve", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-6dae3e11609fecdc", "src-458d50364d7668c5" ], "supportNote": "The two halves come from DART itself. Its June 2023 release makes registration the condition of capping and announces the retail network across \"all 13 service area cities\"; its FAQ explains whom that network is for, answering \"Can I use this app if I don't have a credit or debit card?\" with the cash-to-mobile feature at participating retail locations.", "caveat": "The conclusion is the entry's own. No listed source states that the retail network was built for cash customers in those words, nor measures how many cardholders leave their cards unregistered.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-c6fa3f42d20e7b5c", "title": "Government Technology — Dallas Transit Agencies Launch Mobile Ticketing App", "url": "https://www.govtech.com/transportation/dallas-transit-agencies-launch-mobile-ticketing-app.html", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "govtech.com", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-033eeba720a0d33e", "clm-037065086b6b3d66", "clm-31b66e051f98e13d", "clm-881e6575575cf846" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2013-10-10", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-07", "dossierCreatedAt": 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