Komiksulo
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I just got an email from Let Go Know: "Tell us what you think about the PRESTO farecard". I think I might have a few things to say...
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Looks like Presto is having a pretty widespread system problem with readers at multiple stations not working and announcements to riders to simply board their trains.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1076741
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I went downtown on the train for work yesterday, and passed by the Presto machine. There were two representatives from GO explaining it. I chatted with them a little (in the process remembering that I had Forgotten To Tap Off), and learned something surprising: GO bus drivers can apparently refill Presto cards! If you ask the driver before using your Presto card, and pay cash, apparently the driver can credit the card on the spot.
This seems to be what the article says on the matter:Did not see a mention of total capital cost, the majority of which is apparently to be borne by province -- the same province planning to slash budgets.
Philadelphia is apparently getting an open payment system for $130m: http://planphilly.com/septa-awards-1295-million-contract-build-new-fare-system
So $140 million budgeted, but observers claim it could be $280 million.After years of hesitation, the TTC finally agreed in June to climb aboard the Presto system as long as its capital costs were confined to the $47 million it budgeted, the city’s share of the $140 million joint federal, provincial and city funding allocation. Earlier estimates suggested the installation could cost twice as much.
I am really curious to see how the TTC will implement its unique transfer system into Presto...and do we really have to wait till 2015? We are already behind in this technology and whether it will or will not be fully implemented by 2015 is still a mystery...sigh...