TTC: Other Items (catch all)

[salsa]

Once the hop on-hop off transfer is in effect, PRESTO card customers should tap their card each time they enter a subway station and whenever they board a bus or streetcar, regardless of whether it's in a station or on the street. Tapping validates the transfer or monthly pass on the card.

And how is that going to work, when we don't currently have fare gates between the bus terminals and the subway?

 

[Kitsune]

Does it the clock start on your first Tap ... or does clock restart on every tap ?

 

[M II A II R II K]

And what about pass back.

 

[Leo_Chan]

And how is that going to work, when we don't currently have fare gates between the bus terminals and the subway?

You're suppose to tap on if you're going from the subway to bus, but you don't have to when going from bus to subway.

And what about pass back.

Pass back isn't even the biggest problem, the new fare gates allow for people to walk through as large groups as long as they're walking close enough or someone on the other side holds the gate for them. Enforcement and supervision is required, but that's unlikely due to salary costs.

They also kind of "recommend" this:

How do I access the new fare gates with a small child?
Place your small child or children in front of you. Then tap your PRESTO card on the reader. When the gates open your child or children should walk through first and you walk through immediately behind.

 

[Filip]

Is Seth Rogen going to be the new voice of the TTC? If so, I will never ride transit again. There are few voices in this world that irritate me quite as much as his.

 

[APTA-2048]

At this point, I'll take any human voice I guess.

 

[Streety McCarface]

At this point, I'll take any human voice I guess.

Keep the BD voice as is, just get rid of the redundant comments on the TRs, and lower the volume.

 

[M II A II R II K]

Brampton desperately needs to change its announcement voice.

 

[steveintoronto]

Brampton desperately needs to change its announcement voice.

Is it any worse than Mi-Way's "Stop Re-quest-id"?

I always think of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Some transit announcements are almost seductive in a very classy way. Others are a form of birth control...

 

[drum118]

Now how many trucks and cars collisions took place last year in Toronto?? How many dead were caused by them, as well hitting and killing cycles and Pedestrians???

TTC vehicles were involved in 4,001 collisions last year

 

[BurlOak]

Now how many trucks and cars collisions took place last year in Toronto?? How many dead were caused by them, as well hitting and killing cycles and Pedestrians???

TTC vehicles were involved in 4,001 collisions last year

How many of those collisions involved the grade-separated network of subways (and SRT).?

 

[robmausser]

Keep the BD voice as is, just get rid of the redundant comments on the TRs, and lower the volume.

I think the TR's can't be a real voice, they have to be a computer. As in, I don't think the system works with sound files, just text to speech synthesis.

But yeah, sometimes they are set SO LOUD. Deaf employee at the controls for sure.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Is Seth Rogen going to be the new voice of the TTC? If so, I will never ride transit again. There are few voices in this world that irritate me quite as much as his.

Richard Simmons.

AoD

 

[Richard White]

And how is that going to work, when we don't currently have fare gates between the bus terminals and the subway?

More to the point.. when a bus platform/bay is crushloaded the dwell times will be lengthy while everyone taps on. Imagine.. if you have situation where the subway is out and shuttles are running. Having a mob of people tap onto a shuttle bus will be a disaster and not having them eligible for a two hour transfer will cause problems.

 

[Richard White]

Richard Simmons.

AoD

Where is James Earl Jones when you need him? Imagine.. "THIS IS CNN.. I MEAN UNION.."