Grand River Transit

[tomh009]

And of course, Presto has already moved onto supporting visa and debit cards directly for boarding, something that is, if not world leading, is at least a stand out feature...and something that EasyGO doesn't even have on the radar (I'd be shocked if council even knows it's a thing...since I doubt any
of them are remotely interested in transit), and who the fuck knows how much it will cost us to pay our incredibly incompetent contractor to build.

How would you implement this without Internet connectivity on the buses? With any system?

All because presto wouldn't play by our special rules and bid in the process that we (and we alone) decided was the ONLY way to select a fare payment processor.

Or, to see it from the region's point of view, because Presto refused to consider the customer's (that's the region) requirements and said "it's our way or the highway." If Accenture and Thales had refused to respond to RFPs, they would never have been selected to develop Presto. But now that Metrolinx has Presto, they will refuse to respond to RFPs.

Sole-sourcing government procurement contracts, whatever could possibly go wrong with that?