The MD MTA has succeeded - in thouroughly confusing me!
After spending some time surfing their fare pages, I find some apparent conflicts;
- although there is no mention of loading a Day Pass on a Charm Card in the Day Pass information, when I started drilling through the Charm Card pages it appears the pass can be loaded on a Charm Card
- There are references to the TVMs accepting credit cards (and the rep I spoke with had confirmed this), the Day Pass section only mentions cash or Charm Card for payment
- the rep said an MTA Day Pass could not be purchased with a WMATA SmarTrip Card, yet there are references that the Charm Card and SmarTrip card are totally compatible across systems.
I had hoped to call the MTA today to resolve the information - no luck. The customer service phone line is a Monday-Friday operation. I will call them tomorrow.
With all of this, we still need to work with the short time between our scheduled arrival on MARC, and departure on light rail.
Ross