I am planning to work for a company in McKinley Hill, Taguig and daily commuting is a bit challenging. Imagine, from Rizal I need to take a ride in an FX to Ayala and alight in Kalayaan and then a jeepney ride to Market Market or I can also wait for those with a direct route to Market Market. From there, I have to ride again in a jeepney to Lawton Avenue, McKinley Hill and wait for the shuttle roaming around area. As part of my plan, just purchased a Stored Value Beep Card at the MRT Ortigas station, costs 100 pesos with 80 pesos wallet value, to be used for my daily commuting. What can I get from this Beep Card?
How How to reload your beep card? These smart cards can be used for 4 years and can be loaded up to 10,000 pesos. At the MRT or LRT stations, place your stored value beep card on the Kiosks card table. The machine will read the details thru the magnetic technology on the card and will prompt you enter your desired reloading amount and that's it. AF Payments are also available in some SM malls.
Where can you use your beep card? Most of the time, these beep cards are being used by commuters at the MRT and LRT stations. But, please take note that there are buses that also use beep cards as mode of payment like Froehlich Tours operating from SM North to Makati business district, Citylink Coach operating from McKinley Hill, San Lorenzo Place, Newport City and BGC areas to Eastwood City HM Transport runs the airport loop. I hope that someday there will be a solar powered jeepney's and other buses in Metro Manila that will also use beep cards.