1.   Besides convenience for passengers, the payoff will be less wear and tear on fare boxes, Sardella said.

2.   He suggests encouraging the use of e-cash in small transactions involving government such as fare boxes, parking meters and postal vending machines.

3.   Imagine getting on a New York bus and dropping money in the shape of a hoe into the fare box.

4.   Pataki should use that time to come up with a better way to pay for that capital plan than relying on the fare box.

5.   The card can be used in vending machines, telephones, gas stations, mass transit fare boxes and other sites that have been equipped to accept it.

6.   The buses, subways and trains are not expected to operate solely from the fare box.

7.   The real issue goes far beyond vending machines, parking meters, fare boxes and the proper employment of the US Mint.

8.   Today it makes products as diverse as exit signs, bus fare boxes and power transformers.

9.   When riders first enter the bus or the subway, they can run the card through a fare box or turnstile once each for up to four riders.

10.   When the bus returns to the station, a worker holds a special infrared reader against the fare box.