Metrolinx: Presto Fare Card

[T3G]

Don't forget you can continue to travel on TTC after your 2-hour window expires, you just can't tap anywhere.

How does this work from a fare inspection perspective? If you, theoretically, remained on the TTC for 5 hours after your initial tap, how can the fare inspector tell if the tap he sees is legitimate, or if that was only for your first trip of the day and the rest of the time you've been evading your fare? Given how many of these low ranking "officials" love to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioner, I would not be shocked if the fare inspector declared you to be a fare evader.

 

[rbt]

How does this work from a fare inspection perspective? If you, theoretically, remained on the TTC for 5 hours after your initial tap, how can the fare inspector tell if the tap he sees is legitimate, or if that was only for your first trip of the day and the rest of the time you've been evading your fare? Given how many of these low ranking "officials" love to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioner, I would not be shocked if the fare inspector declared you to be a fare evader.

"If you are on a vehicle or enter a station with a few minutes remaining on your transfer, you can continue to complete your journey and do not need to tap if the transfer expires while you are on that vehicle. For example, if you tap on a streetcar 1 hour and 55 minutes after your first tap, and you are still on the same streetcar 20 minutes later, your transfer is still valid. When TTC fare inspectors query your PRESTO card, they will be able to see that your transfer is still valid."

Two-hour transfer

www.ttc.ca

EDIT: I rarely use TTC these days so I don't know what would happen in practice, but the published rules seem pretty simple: Tap where you're supposed to tap and if the fare was valid at that time then it counts.

 

[T3G]

"If you are on a vehicle or enter a station with a few minutes remaining on your transfer, you can continue to complete your journey and do not need to tap if the transfer expires while you are on that vehicle. For example, if you tap on a streetcar 1 hour and 55 minutes after your first tap, and you are still on the same streetcar 20 minutes later, your transfer is still valid. When TTC fare inspectors query your PRESTO card, they will be able to see that your transfer is still valid."

Two-hour transfer

www.ttc.ca

EDIT: I rarely use TTC these days so I don't know what would happen in practice, but the published rules seem pretty simple: Tap where you're supposed to tap and if the fare was valid at that time then it counts.

In that example, though, the person has tapped again 1 hr 55 minutes after their initial tap, so if the inspector were to see that, he could conclude that it is reasonable for that person to still be on the TTC.

In my example though I'm wondering what would happen if you only tapped the one time. There's quite a few trips you could make through surface transit that connects subway stations to subway stations, and in this way you could be on the system indefinitely without having to tap a second time. I have doubts that a fare inspector would be so charitable, since it is easier to accuse people of being crooks than it is to take nuance into account.

 

[turbanplanner]

...that's 5 hours, and you'd actually have until 7:06pm to use the TTC since your GO transfer becomes your TTC transfer:

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I’m aware you’d have to wait and that makes it really impractical, but if you notice it doesn’t say free transfer it just said the fare is zero dollars for the last TTC tap