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- Joined
- Jan 13, 2008
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If you are visiting for the day and exploring you are probably best not to use PRESTO at the moment as it is only usable on streetcars and some subways and you still need paper transfers and tokens/tickets for buses.. By 2017 you will have no choice as PRESTO will replace cash, tickets, tokens, transfers and passes on everything. If you have used transit other cities with fare card systems it will be similar (daily caps etc) and you can, of course, use it on GO and UPX too. 2016 will confuse us all!I'm an out-of-towner and I find Presto unnervingly confusing. Whenever I visit Toronto I just get a day pass for the TTC so I don't have to bother with trying to figure out transfers and stuff. I don't think I'm "dumb" or whatever (I love public transport, and exploring other cities and have riden countless systems around the world), but Presto isn't very well explained how it all works anywhere, especially not at the point of use (a subway or UP! station, for example).