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It's not within their mandate because the RT isn't a federally regulated railway (unlike the Trillium/Confederation lines in Ottawa). Nonetheless, they can be invited to investigate and provide advice. FWIW, GO Transit doesn't fall under TSB jurisdiction when operating on Metrolinx-owned track...

In case anyone was curious...

That's what these are for (specifically the white ones): Yes, but for London-Toronto, generally speaking, on a 5-car train, for economy class, as a default, the reservation system uses car 5 as the primary car, then car 4 as an overflow car, then car 3. For the rest of the origin/destination...

Or instead of packing all the Toronto-London passengers into car 5 (mostly students with large bags), they could update the reservation system to spread out passengers at a minimal cost and decrease dwell time that way...

Your card has to be whitelisted if you want to use it now. I would be surprised if the Q3 2023 target for a public release wasn't met.

Contactless is $3.30 on the TTC, at least for now...

Kind of like this, but only Presto card transactions get passed through to the central system. Ottawa's system has to interoperate with STO's which complicates development. Support might come at a later date, but the TTC really wants virtual Presto cards and open payment this quarter so...

Ottawa isn't getting it either since they're primarily using FareGO for their back end. Edit July 26, Ottawa is probably getting it, implementation took less time than expected. Expect an announcement imminently. Apple Pay with a credit/debit card will still work though...

New gate software rolling out. finally...

It's not likely, at least the initial implementation. Right now, from a software development standpoint, the focus is finishing up/testing the "interface" between FareGo for the TTC Fare Gates and the rest of the Presto back end to enable account-based transactions (virtual card/open payment)...

How is this a total rework of the fare system? It's pretty much just the previous GO-TTC discount, but with a bigger discount...

https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/96523?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3ACreated%2C%2Cposterid%3A869357%2C20%2C2%2C0%2C98938176

The system is already capable of it. Back in April, when GO busses diverted to Highway 407 Terminal you weren't charged a TTC fare when transferring from the GO bus. https://transittoronto.ca/archives/weblog/2023/04/13-go_transit.shtml

It's real

https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1687445823/Documents/Metrolinx/Item_16.1_-_Payments_PRESTO__En.pdf

2464 was back in service as of June 5 https://www.transsee.ca/triplist?a=gotransit&fleet=2464&starttime=04:00&endtime=04:00&nextday=1&date=2023-06-05

I was talking about using your phone for NFC while it's in a powered-off state because the battery died. Sorry for not being more clear, I forgot the Express Transit feature included the powered-on state. It's supposed to have been a feature available on Android since Android 11, but I don't...

It's not on Apple Pay yet. I got an email about an NDA so I had to take everything down. But the TTC said that virtual cards are now in testing in it's Major Capital Projects report so it's kind of public information now. I read somewhere that android is getting something similar, but it...

They're also soft on kids based on what I saw sitting at 311 Jarvis. The guards were like "these kids spit on and abuse us" when the Justice of the Peace I met was like "we need to provide enrichment like books in their cells so there not just sitting there doing nothing, they're just kids".