Grand River Transit

[robdrimmie]

If transfers were intended as one-time use, both the old system and the new system have ways of enforcing it.

In the old system, bus drivers could require passengers to discard their transfers.

In the new system, multiple uses of the transfer could be rejected. If you try to use the same transfer card multiple times on the same bus within a 5-minute window, they are rejected.

Using one transfer for multiple fares at the same stop is clearly a violation of the system. I don't have an old paper transfer around to check the conditions on the back, but the only condition on the new transfers is the expiry time, and according to the GRT's site, as long as a transfer is within its timeframe, using it is valid. There are no exceptions posted in any of the pages I can find on the GRT site.

http://www.grt.ca/en/fares-passes/paying-your-fare.aspx
http://www.grt.ca/en/fares-passes/learn-...rebox.aspx

I appreciate what you're saying, that the "spirit" of the transfer is to start a trip and reach a destination. I just don't see any indication that the GRT issues transfers with that spirit. Until I do, I'll continue to think that multiple uses are ethical. In my mind, the spirit of public transit is to enable people to live and function without personal vehicles, and this use of transfers supports that very nicely.