11-21-2018, 10:25 PM
(11-21-2018, 08:57 PM)KevinL Wrote: The sort of tickets used casually, yes - that are handed out, or bought by those who are visting or don't intend to regularly use the system.
People who regularly buy tickets would get a plastic card with stored balance, and top that up as needed.
I have realized that the stored value cards are a lot more expensive than they seem, you must consider the balance one must carry continuously to use the system, so even though a presto card for example is only 5 dollars, I generally carry a balance of 40 or so in order to ensure I can round-trip + TTC in Toronto. Make it rather expensive for anyone of lower income--and totally unnecessary if they were willing to tie it to a payment system (i.e., they could be the ones to take the 40 dollar risk, which would be low if they already had payment info).