Westchester started allowing Metrocards on its Bee-Line bus system yesterday, and let’s just say the debut was less than auspicious. Vendors sold out of the cards very quickly, leaving riders in a bind, as most of the previous methods of payment (such as dollar bills) no longer work.

Journal News has the story.

One interesting suplot in the article: two of the random Joes (and Joans) contacted for the piece revealed truly heinous commutes. To wit:

Linda Christie, 35, who takes five buses every day to get between her Yonkers home and her IBM office in Armonk…

 And…

“I already had one, so it was no problem,” agreed Rudy Quinonez, 25, who takes a subway from his Brooklyn home to Grand Central, then the Metro-North train to White Plains in order to catch a bus to his job at Verizon.

Good lord. Suddenly Metro-North to the 6 train doesn’t seem all that abominable.