TOareaFan
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I think you are taking the $10 out-of-context. The comment at the time was that the fair would be around $40. The current fare from Kitchener is about $15 with Presto ($16.60 cash).
The full quote was:
"For a lot of people it will be a $10, $20, $25 ride if they're doing it every day. If you're a frequent rider you pay a much lower fare, if you book early or in advance you get a lower fare and if you're an infrequent rider who rides it once or twice a month you're probably going to pay a higher than $40 fare. If you're going to use it to commute it will be very inexpensive. If you're someone who's living in London who's going to the airport at the last minute it will be more expensive. The average fare will be $40 a ride going from London to downtown Toronto"
A monthly pass from Kitchener is currently $532.95, and a child is $322.00. So if you are doing it every day, 62 trips a month then the current Kitchener fare is $5 to $9 currently. If you are 40 trips a month and an adult it's $13.
So yes, fares from London (not accounting for how many decades of inflation will occur before it opens) could be $10, $20, $25 a ride if doing it every day. If an adult travels every weekday, $25 is quite imaginable. And then a child travelling every day then $10 is quite believable.
This doesn't mean that the walk-up fare one-time from London will be $10. They said $40.
I get all that.....but, again, if someone is going to be paying (assuming 62 trips a month) $9 for a two hour service....how does $10 for a 40 minute service work? No one in their right mind would pay $9 for a two hour trip if an extra dollar can buy them 1 hour 20 minutes of time back. Either the 2 hour service fare has to be dramatically cut....or the 2 hour service itself gets cut from the menu of transit options.