Tuscani01
Senior Member
Or you know... put up a sign saying it is being tested. It's not rocket science. We do it for everything else that is being tested.
I always love the adage, "Never attribute to malice, that which you can attribute to incompetence." With Presto and the TTC, I think it's almost certainly the latter.When the TTC makes a claim and that claim turns out to be false, there are only two options: the claim was intentionally wrong (this is lying) or unintentionally wrong (this is incompetence).
Some of the new Presto reload machines in the subway stations are within the paid areas (ex. St Andrew). Which is kind of weird. I'm assuming there will always be one outside the paid area?
Just walked through....there are definitely two machines...one inside the paid area and one outside.I have never noticed the one at St. Andrew inside the paid area...but there is definitely one on the non-paid side of the turnstiles (unless they moved it in the last week)
I've never hesitated to criticize Bombardier. You simply got your back up because a few months ago you lied and made up a story that deliveries were slowing down. And yet looking at the actual data, they were actually speeding up a bit.Why criticize Bombardier's announcements (after much hesitating on your part, I might add), but not the TTC's?
I'm thrilled that TTC has accelerated the rollout on streetcars and look forward to them being available whenever they turn them on.
Compared with an earlier deployment schedule that went well into 2017. TTC and Metrolinx reworked the schedule for the old streetcars using hardware from the now-delayed new streetcar implementation, to complete deployment during 2015.[/QUOTE]Accelerated? Compared with what?
You simply got your back up because a few months ago you lied and made up a story that deliveries were slowing down. And yet looking at the actual data, they were actually speeding up a bit.
How can one not be optimistic. Glass half full much better way to live than glass half empty.
Still, that doesn't justify lying that deliveries were slowing down, while they were actually accelerating.
I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but the Metropass vending machine at Queens Park Station sells Presto cards, I haven't noticed if this being done elsewere.
I also recall hearing a rumour that the UPX ticket vending machines are going to be upgraded to both vend preloaded Presto cards and do Presto reloads via the small RFID reader/card holder visible on the front of those machines (which is currently unused), which would certainly be a good idea especially given the lack of an SSK at UPX Union; if they do so, given that the GO TVMs seem very similar bordering on identical, hopefully that Presto vending+reloading functionality, or at least the reloading, would come to all of those as well...that's the only logical explanation I can think of regarding why they're resisting putting the SSKs at GO stations.
I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but the Metropass vending machine at Queens Park Station sells Presto cards, I haven't noticed if this being done elsewere.