M II A II R II K
Senior Member
And the Brown Line in Chicago could still be considered to me "mass" transit, even though certain sections of it are not rapid.
New departures widget live on http://www.ttc.ca/ from The Transit App. Seems pretty slick.
Details: http://transitapp.com/blog/transit-widget-for-agencies
Today, the TTC is planning to announce the ability to use credit and debit cards to purchase transit fares.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...ke-announcement-about-transit-fares-1.2874524
Welcome to 2002, TTC!
I think that the TTC have been working on this for several months. If I remember right the reason we did not have this sooner was a lack of electric and data outlets at all the collector booths. Good to see it finally here but not really John Tory's doing.Long overdue - I just hope that the riders are ready to wake up from their halycon days (because I have a feeling some will be in for more than a rude shock)
AoD
While I am not against the notion of allowing riders to pay by Credit/Debit, I can't wait to see the lineup increase in length - most can't do it fast enough even if they life depended on it.
And technically you can already use both - at the pass vending machine.
AoD
Today, the TTC is planning to announce the ability to use credit and debit cards to purchase transit fares.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...ke-announcement-about-transit-fares-1.2874524
It crosses a few intersections at grade, regularly hitting cars driven by people who aren't paying attention to the crossing. Hilarious setup for a 3rd rail based system, but I don't think it meets the definition of rapid transit provided by that wiki page.
Calgary's C-Train LRT crosses many, if not a majority, of streets at grade, with railway-spec crossings that provide 100% transit priority. It's rapid transit. The outer ends of the CTA's Brown and Pink Lines are the same, yet they are still rapid transit.