We have bought a Roma pass in Rome and want to activate it on the tram. We caught the bus and tram before but couldn't work out how to do it. So it's still not been activated. Can you tell me how to activate its first use on the tram?
On every tram/bus there is the ticket punch (and, if it's not the old type, it looks most of the time like this: http://static.blogo.it/06blog/obliteratrice_bus_ro... _), pray that it works (because the opposite situation is not rare at all).
Now, if you have a normal ticket, you just have to push it into that grey slot on the top (following the direction of a little arrow on the ticket), the machine will sucks it in and after not even a second spits it back up out at you, activated.
But, since you have a card, you have to hold your pass over that black central circle until a green singnal light is on, and your card will be automatically recognized, (but don't forget to write on it your name and the stamping date!).
You don't have to validate it each time you use the transportation, but you have to use the plastic card each time you ride the metro (to get through the turnstiles).
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Oh, it's very simple! (:
On every tram/bus there is the ticket punch (and, if it's not the old type, it looks most of the time like this: http://static.blogo.it/06blog/obliteratrice_bus_ro... _), pray that it works (because the opposite situation is not rare at all).
Now, if you have a normal ticket, you just have to push it into that grey slot on the top (following the direction of a little arrow on the ticket), the machine will sucks it in and after not even a second spits it back up out at you, activated.
But, since you have a card, you have to hold your pass over that black central circle until a green singnal light is on, and your card will be automatically recognized, (but don't forget to write on it your name and the stamping date!).
You don't have to validate it each time you use the transportation, but you have to use the plastic card each time you ride the metro (to get through the turnstiles).