(12-23-2023, 09:14 PM)Bytor Wrote: That would mean ripping out the fareboxes and kiosks EVREYWHERE in order to install PRESTO-specific hardware.
I'll single handedly rip out all of our fare boxes myself if the region agreed to switch to Presto. I bet a lot would be more than happy to lend a hand.
There is absolutely no reason to use our crap system, although I know we're stuck with it. But...Presto just works. There's a reason why it has been adopted by transit agencies servicing millions upon millions upon millions of people in our nations most important cities and it isn't because anyone is putting a gun to the heads of people in oh...Brampton, Ottawa, Toronto, Durham, Mississauga, Hamilton, York and Oakville. They went with it because it makes sense to do so. As said, it just works. It has a lot of good features. It is accepted in basically every important urban centre in Ontario - sans ours, of course.
But in the usual Region of Waterloo fashion: we just had to do it our way. Just like not shovelling sidewalks fronting private residential/commercial/etc businesses is not good. Or how collecting the recyclables of like 630'000 people is best done by having them sort it all into tiny containers rather than just a huge ass wheelie bin that holds a lot of stuff and move on.