innsertnamehere
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Because the TTC didn't agree to anything until 2012.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2014/06/forget_about_using_presto_on_the_ttc_any_time_soon/
Forget about using Presto on the TTC any time soon
This thread started in 2006. Why is this taking so long?
Because the TTC didn't agree to anything until 2012.
It's coming to the point now where I'm [not so] seriously considering buying some a few thousand iPads, writing the software and deploying it across the TTC myself
They are entirely new faregates. Not a single one has been installed yet. Here's the prototype a few months ago:what I cant understand is why they are taking so damn long just to install presto readers at the subway stations. They are pretty much the easiest of the systems to implement and yet not even half of the stations have it?
The wiring? It's a completely different gate, requiring a lot more than just the wiring.How much more different is the wiring compared to a metropass reader?
They haven't installed any of the new gates yet. Metrolinx took it on themselves to install some temporary devices in a few stations where a lot of GO riders were expected to use, but they aren't designed to handle the kind of very frequent usage that TTC would have to handle. Would you prefer that they do something half-assed that's going to fail completely with the number of people you see arriving at TTC station at times?and besides theyve had ones in the major stations for years. Shouldnt they have been able to learn from those??
I fail to see the link here between this, and privatization. A private company has the contract to design and install the new gates. I think you are severely underestimating what is involved here.The more I read about this humiliation to our city the more I really think privatization is a better idea. At least the corporations have the incentive to make money in a timely manner rather than sit on their thumbs and claim ignorance all the time
http://www.blogto.com/city/2014/06/forget_about_using_presto_on_the_ttc_any_time_soon/
Forget about using Presto on the TTC any time soon
This thread started in 2006. Why is this taking so long?
the whole world has used it for ages. only in Toronto we pretend it is some sort of cutting-edge high-tech waiting to surprise people.
I am pretty embarassed every time I need to ask visiting friends to buy little tokens and drop into those antique fare boxes, lol.
and...in most instances line up to pay the man behind the glass with cash!
LOL. I don't really see it anywhere else where people line up to pay transit fare, and I have traveled to many cities.
Imagine this happens in Tokyo... by the time you get your token to go to work, it is already lunch hour.
We had the opportunity to leap from 1960 to 1990 yet nevertheless failed in doing that.
Actually when you think about it, it is a certain segment of the riders who are behind the times - why do we insist on purchasing rides at the booth when electronic alternatives had been available for awhile? I think in this instance the availability of the service drove behaviour more than anything else.
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What "electronic alternatives" do we have for taking the TTC (not GO)?
Er, swipe cards for passes? Token dispensing machines (I think these are being phased out)? Not to mention the fact that you have token distributers? There is really little reason for anyone to have to use the booth, other than for those who can't plan their trips ahead of time.
Quite frankly you can get away from the model of selling rides at the booth without any fancy system 99% of the time - all you need are change and vending machines.
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If token vending machines are the leap into the future let me tell you my experience.....they are slow....are not very plentiful (so the line up to use them is as bad as lining up at the booth) don't accomodate the one time/spontanious user of system (as a tourist/visitor might be) because they only dispense mulitple tokens.....and, still, they don't accept any payment form other than cash! (in this case, specifically 10s and 20s).....my experience at other transit systems is that this would be (and should be) viewed as archaic.
Er, swipe cards for passes? Token dispensing machines (I think these are being phased out)? Not to mention the fact that you have token distributers? There is really little reason for anyone to have to use the booth, other than for those who can't plan their trips ahead of time.
Quite frankly you can get away from the model of selling rides at the booth without any fancy system 99% of the time - all you need are change and vending machines.
AoD