BMO
Senior Member
i think the presto website looks the easiest to use, the other three websites look convoluted.
I agree. They are busy working through problems with the implementation and ensuring everything is working. A site update can be done later but at this point, additional work on the site could not possibly be called critical path.I'll just be happy if it works as advertised. There's no sense spending money on a web site if the product it sells doesn't work.
I'm in Hong Kong right now, and I've used the Octopus card at cafes (even Starbucks!), grocery stores, etc....any idea whether Presto might be used for small ticket items at places like Tim Hortons, Starbucks or Shoppers?
I bet we're going to hear grunblings from city-dwellers about the fancy new fare machines in the subway that only suburbanites can use.
That would be the single best thing the TTC could do for ridership. I'd ride the TTC so much more often if running multiple errands in an hour didn't involve four or five fares.
Better still, those kinds of trips (shopping, random errands) tend to be off-peak.
The current public schedule is below. However, I wouldn't assume that all of these timeframes will be met.But seriously, I heard May. Someone posted an updated rollout schedule (probably DavidH) a while ago, but I can't remember if it was here or on CPTD or both.
In order to accommodate the TTC's transfer system, the Presto system would have to be tied into the bus' GPS system and know the exact location where you boarded the first bus, the exact location where you boarded the second bus, and then figure out if that transfer is even possible in the time you took to make the trip.
As such, is it safe to say that the TTC will have to move to a time-limited transfer system similar to those used by the 905 agencies?
Well, "spring 2010" should be interpreted as "May". Does that help?I think he was talking about the specific month and date. I swear I saw it somewhere...