10-14-2023, 06:39 PM
(10-14-2023, 09:33 AM)jwilliamson Wrote: I just tried to use a GRT day pass, and the system seems designed to be impossible to use. They are not sold online through the website; you need to buy them in person. A single EasyGO card can only hold a single day pass at a time, so you need to travel to a place they are sold each time you want to use one. They appear to be sold through the Ion vending machines, but the flow doesn't actually work, so you need to travel to either downtown Kitchener or Ainslie terminal. You can't have one loaded on your card and wait to use it until you actually are going to make a bunch of trips, it activates the first time you tap the card so you need to have a separate card just for the day pass.
The paper passes worked so much better.
In other news, I was taking the bus in Winnipeg and it was pretty annoying to have to find $3.15 cash (or, really, $3.25) because I didn't have either tickets or their own fare card. Vancouver is much easier with open payments, and Presto does work most places in Ontario (we've been through that before). I guess Waterloo is slightly easier than Winnipeg because it has LRT and vending machines which work unless you try to buy a day pass.