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Lightspell was partially turned on @ Pioneer Village. Any update on the dispute?

School has already begun for York Students, hence why it was busy.

At York University stn today. Line up to go up the escalator. The extension works.

The lighting and my phone's camera makes it look brown, it's actually black. Similar to the new PRESTO Cards.

New PRESTO fare vending machine @ Sheppard West.

With cash, you will have to purchase a single ride PRESTO card from the vending machines at these stations. No tokens can be used or purchased at these stations too.

WE’RE UPGRADING OUR TICKET VENDING MACHINES We’re upgrading our ticket vending machines to make using PRESTO even easier Some of our ticket vending machines will be upgraded so you can instantly add value to your PRESTO card, check account information and at select locations, purchase a new...

You only need to program the card for Senior Concession at a Customer Service Outlet once, and a senior fare will be deducted on every transit system.

Actually phones are capable, Sydney's Opal is an example. http://www.danielbowen.com/2015/07/12/opal-phone-nfc/ In fact, Singapore's Ez Link card can be loaded via your phone's nfc as well. But only capable with android phones.

Washington DC's WMATA is testing an open payment pilot with the same PRESTO technology we have in Toronto. Most likely, its going to be a tap and go system for Toronto and it'll handle transfers like a regular PRESTO Card with Credit/Debit cards. By just having this ability, mobile payments via...

I don't recall knowing this, but the PRESTO devices for the 905 only communicate at the buses' depot, but if they do manage to communicate with bus's GPS system, it's still incapable of charging the correct fare without the driver devices. However, this is may be the case for GO since it is a...

I don't know why they can just install a driver side PRESTO device like what they have in the 905+Ottawa to solve this problem. The drivers are able to charge the express fare on YRT Express routes (not Viva), and you can buy a day pass using your e-purse in Ottawa with the assistance of these...

I see, there hasn't been a lot of information floating around about the API , but happy they're opening up for developers to use it (like Touch ID initially) instead of keeping it amongst themselves.

Its going to happen anyway, by the end of the 2017 you can use your phone as a PRESTO card through an app, NFC capabilities will be required in order to do this. Apple doesn't want 3rd parties to use the iPhone's NFC capabilities, so most likely it will be Android use exclusively. Apple Pay will...