Romanian anomaly: Travelling underground with a card rechargeable only in bus stations

Nearly one million Bucharest inhabitants use the electronic card for access to buses, as well as for underground transportation, with revenues collected from credit charged to the cards amounting to 24.1 million euros, up 15% in the first eight months of this year against the similar time of last year, according to officials from the Bucharest Public Transport Corporation (RATB), to which 91% of the revenues went.
Although Activ electronic card allows access to the Bucharest underground, it can neither be bought nor recharged in underground stations, but only in bus stations because the underground does not have issuing or recharging equipment.
How can one explain this anomaly, for which officials of Metrorex, the company that manages the Bucharest underground, have yet to find a solution after three years since access via an electronic has been introduced in the underground system?
“We are seeking to find a solution for this problem, given that many travellers who use the Activ electronic card have sent us requests to implement a recharging system in underground stations,” said Tiberiu Moldovan, commercial manager of Metrorex, adding that last week underground officials had met with officials of RATB to look into ways to introduce the recharging system in underground stations.