Feels like every 10 pages or so we should remind ourselves that actual "world class cities" have been using fare cards, and solved these issues, years ago. Without going on Wikpedia to check dates, I remember using a Metrocard in New York in the late 1990s. I used an Oyster card in London, must have been 15 years ago.
And here we are, people freaking out over Metropasses on Twitter and (per a post on the previous page) no thought put into - given the embarrassingly high Metropass multiplier - simply eliminating the darned thing and replacing it with daily/weekly/monthly caps. Just like they have in other places and have for years. The systemic failures and navel gazing and hysteria would be embarrassing if anyone outside the GTA paid attention. Toronto patting itself on the back for having managed to figure out 2-hour fares is almost as sad to me as celebrating the minimal achievements of the King Street Pilot and Bloor Street Bike Lanes. We're not doing anything other cities didn't do bigger and better years and years ago. (And that includes 905 systems, which have things like 2-hour fares and balance displays on Presto for, jeeze, almost ten years now! I mean, jeeze, get it together already!)