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Hyperbole much? Less than one-third of the world has a system remotely as advanced as our's. Even if tickets and tokens were made obcelete, there'll always be a group of people who just like paying cash up front (VIVA take note) no hassle.
What other international systems have you ridden? Virtually all of them these days have gone with either smart cards or they have a proof-of-payment system.
<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>include the wonderful world of regional rail. Just because it isn't done in your experience in Toronto doesn't mean that it can't have integrated fares. Hell, it can even be run by the same transit authority, believe it
How 'bout letting transfer holders get a free ride? It's not too much to ask. The expectation of paying double fares within the 416 is a valid reason why more people don't ride it.[/quote]
Oh okay, I get it. You're not familiar with the term integrated fares. What it means is that you pay the same fare to ride both services.
Please, the shelters they have at GO stops couldn't keep an unsheared sheep warm! Wind chill factors, snow seeping in, it's very disconcerting. And FYI only enclosed structures can be climate controlled .
It's so baffling that you have all these wild ideas about subway construction criss-crossing the city, but you can't even conceieve of a different design for stations. I didn't say the shelters they have now. I said that an important part of a decent regional rail system in a climate like ours is that they be decently enclosed and climate-controlled.
They do for several stops mainly Rouge Hill and Long Branch. Some like Old Cummer and York U however will always be walk-ins territory.
Why? If the service is similar to decent regional rail (please at least wikipedia S-Bahn or RER before you post any more on the subject), there's no reason why the local bus routes can't feed those stops.
Well I got one better. I don't live in the Beaches nor Rouge Hill nor Malvern nor Long Branch nor Rexdale nor VCC nor Richmond Hill and I'll never even use half these lines. So what trumps divinity?...supremacy !
That's why he said "By your standards."
Well thankfully other posters are in agreeance with me on this one so your opinion on mine is now worthless to me too. There's too many things wrong with GO to hash out in just one blurb, making my so-called attempt to displace them not so transwank afterall !
socialwoe, posters who have been criticizing GO do not want to replace the system with endless subways. What most would like (aside from basic reliability of the existing service) is decent regional rail.