I'd say the US dollar has pretty much reached that point. $1 today has the buying power of $0.16 in 1965, when I was born. When I was growing up, a quarter bought me two games of pinball. Now it's fifty cents for one game. As dollars "feel" like quarters did when I was growing up, why not demote them to coinage?
There are a lot of vending machines that should be taking dollar coins but instead have to install bill validators, and it seems to me that this costs more.
And BART needs to update their machinery. They still give out change in only quarters, which is fine if I'm playing pinball, but otherwise isn't very good. VTA and Caltrain and the Postal Service have installed equipment that deals with and gives change in dollar coins, so why can't BART?
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Date: 2007-06-23 07:06 am (UTC)There are a lot of vending machines that should be taking dollar coins but instead have to install bill validators, and it seems to me that this costs more.
And BART needs to update their machinery. They still give out change in only quarters, which is fine if I'm playing pinball, but otherwise isn't very good. VTA and Caltrain and the Postal Service have installed equipment that deals with and gives change in dollar coins, so why can't BART?