Thanks to y’all helpful folks who sent us this SFGate blog post marveling at how the TransLink card will be rebranded to Clipper at a price of “about $500,000.” Even bigger thanks (and hugs and kisses) to those of you sending it saying “didn’t you cover this months ago?”
However, clearly this was news to the folks at Rescue Muni, which seems to underscore Appeal commenters’ speculation that RM is a bit, um, out of touch. (Which is too bad! Rescue Muni, the people are clamoring for you! You’re in demand!)
But, yeah, we reported this story back in December, after being alerted to the MTC plan by a Dec 11 blog post from Akit. So, YEAH, WE KNOW.
Oh, one other thing? The total cost for the rebrand will be was going to be almost a million dollars, not $500K: as we noted in December, they’re expecting to spend $500K to rebrand all the machines, and “An additional $475K will be spent at Swirl Integrated Marketing ‘to enable development of new brochures and other customer communication tools that reflect the new brand.'” Update: Akit lets us know that the new budget to rebrand TransLink is $1.375 million. Thanks for the update, Akit! Folks, this is one of the many reasons why you should read his blog: he reads the documents.
Everyone’s forgiven for not remembering our December story, of course (kisses and hugs again!) but if you want to get mad about how much money’s going towards the TransLink rebrand, now you have an even bigger number to get pissed over.
