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nfitz
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At the main entrance? TTC has said the Glen Road entrance will be closed from tonight through Sunday for Presto work. I'm glad they are starting to work on the secondary entrances. It's tough to get through those with kids.
GeneralGrievance
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I shot a video of the fare gate at Main Street today (there's a Josh Colle cameo at the end).
Juan_Lennon416
Senior Member
Can one slip through these gates?
minilude
Active Member
what about those under 12?
Electrify
Senior Member
If you recall the story I mentioned a while back (need to post here more often), on the bus ride back home I checked my account from my phone. The TTC taps showed up on the page, but my Viva ones did not, despite the fact that the latter ones were stationary machines. I think it also has a bit to do with the generation of machine, the newer ones the TTC uses with colour LCD displays seem to upload more rapidly than older ones with monochrome LCD displays, even if the latter tend to be hardwired.
Honestly, there is little reason I can figure out as to why stationary terminals don't update instantly, or at least very rapidly. By the late 00s which is their vintage, the technology was readily available for this to happen.
drum118
Superstar
They look like a smart phone and have seen them.
They are being test at 6 TTC location for reloading the cards with them
nfitz
Superstar
They can just walk through the collectors window at Main Street at the moment. There's a huge gap between turnstile and the first Presto gate, so it will be easier to walk past when everyone is paying.
Though personally, I just carry the 3-year old through, and the 8-year old uses her Presto card, and get's charged $0:
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Tuscani01
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Main entrance is what I noticed today. This was just after noon.
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That's essentially what the fare inspectors use.
Catenary
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Yep. The older units that I believe GO and certainly OCTranspo use are the Handheld Nautiz X5, and the newer units that the TTC has are the Symbol/Motorola Solutions/Zebra TC 55. The TC55 runs Android, so theoretically they could use any capabe NFC android phone going forward, but the TC55 is an enterprise device.
http://www.handheldgroup.com/rugged-computer/handheld-pda/nautiz-x5/
https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/mobile-computers/handheld/TC55/tc55-spec-sheet.html
ottbike
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Megaton327
Senior Member
The TTC fare inspectors are most certainly given smartphones that read presto fares. Some of them choose not to use it because apparently the units have technical issues (one of them told me this) and can take a very long time to set up and check a fare.
I've been inspected twice since POP came to the 509, one time the inspector did take out the phone and try to read my card but his device didn't work, the other time the inspector did check my fare properly.
JasonParis
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Indeed, I was referring to the military, train-time, call it what you will.
muller877
Senior Member
pssst...don't tell the union...but most software similar to this allows management to monitor the number of scans per hour. Management will know how many scans inspectors will make, how may tickets they hand out and how many people are let go (both per shift and per hour). Just like any other task-based job this allows management to measure performance of the staff. And to give development plans for those that are not meeting expectations.
The other benefits (depending on the software build) include:
- the system there can feedback to tell an inspector if a Presto card has already received a warning in the past (and can force the inspector to give a ticket in certain circumstances)
- You can have software to track the success rates of inspectors on each line. This can mean that inspectors will be more frequent on lines with higher delinquency rates