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Metrolinx chose the initial locations based on where the riders were most likely to be coming from to transfer to GO. The assumption is that anyone along King or Queen would be walking to Union - so the downtown loop, was only from Dundas and north, plus Union.I'm amazed Queen has lagged so far behind the rest of the downtown 'U' stations. I have friends and family in town sometimes who use presto (I have a metropass, myself) and whenever we're at the Eaton Centre they have to decide between digging up tokens--if they even have any, and often they don't even have change so there's no choice--or walking all the way to Dundas instead of getting on at Queen. It's silly to have Toronto's most important mall, a designated tourist attraction, have 3 subway entrances and only 1 has taken presto for years. I hope that Queen at least gets both the north and south entrances equipped with Presto but I find myself worried--a lot of other stations have only one entrance equipped...we'll see soon, I hope.
I'd think that TTC had selected the locations for their purposes, Queen would have been early.