12-24-2023, 12:22 AM
(12-23-2023, 11:17 PM)ac3r Wrote: But...Presto just works.
No, it doesn't. Every single transit system that has installed PRESTO has had significant problems with it far worse than we have had with EasyGO.
I don't think locals understand that.
Are you angry at EasyGO now? Prepare to be abso-fucking-lutely raging if we were to switch to PRESTO.
Why do you think it took the TTC a decade to install and test it, starting from 2009, with multiple halts? The original contract signing in 2012 was supposed to have PREST available across the board on the TTC by 2016, but that did not happen until after 2019 because of all the problems.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ttc-bla...ef95a.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ttc-sus...559ec.html
https://www.toronto.com/news/metrolinxs-...1d23b.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/p...-1.3795660
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tor...e31932882/
https://torontoobserver.ca/2019/11/27/pr...g-the-ttc/
https://stevemunro.ca/2019/11/03/toronto...-problems/
(12-23-2023, 11:17 PM)ac3r Wrote: 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.
It wasn't so simple for YRT. https://www.york.ca/media/54436/download It literally took years to get the integration with TTC corrected instead of double charging people. PRESTO fare integration across the GTA/905 transit agencies still isn't here yet.
BTW, part of the gas tax transfer payments from 2006 through 2008 were contingent on adopting Presto, AFAIK.