achender
Active Member
I'm curious how many workers will be checking to make sure people are paying when the new streetcars go into service. I think it will be important especially in the beginning to make sure this is happening, so it creates a impression that you can't just get away with it.
The CEO's report for the August 19 meeting says that (subject to board approval) all streetcar routes will be POP by January 1, 2015 and that extra fare inspectors will be hired.
It was originally intended that the remaining streetcar routes would only convert to the POP system once they
received the first of their batch of new streetcars. Subject to discussion with the Board, we propose that ALL
remaining streetcar routes convert to POP from January 1, 2015, thereby permitting all-day, all door boarding to speed
up dwell times and to remove a major irritant for those with a Metropass or a valid transfer, namely the current need
to board at the front.
Clearly, such an expansion of POP will need to be backed by a credible fare enforcement policy to ensure that
customer benefits are not outweighed by an increase in lost revenue. To that end, we will be recruiting a team of
dedicated fare inspectors to enforce the POP or honour system. We firmly believe that this is the right thing to do as
part of a suite of measures to speed up and improve the quality of surface transit routes.
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