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• Smartcard faces bumpy ride [ Toronto Star ]
• Dispute threatens to halt Viva bus service [ Globe and Mail ]
• Red-light camera delays cost city [ Toronto Star ]
• Top post for city promotion long vacant [ Toronto Star ]
• Miller renews call for handgun ban [ Toronto Sun ]
• Trees thrive on cash: Fletcher [ Toronto Sun ]
• Greens welcome nod from Miller [ Toronto Sun ]
• Fort York grounds to get $12.4M makeover [ Toronto Star ]
• Metal barriers tie up Bathurst [ Toronto Star ]

10 comments

  1. “All the other transit systems have a time-based transfer. You pay one fare, you can ride as far as you want in 90 minutes. The TTC has a directional transfer – you can’t go back the same way. So we’re having to work out the complexities of that,” said Smith.

    The TTC should go with the time-base transfer, like everyone else.

  2. In true TTC style, they must reinvent everything.

    Such arrogance.

    No wonder everything they consider costs more and delivers less.

  3. This kills me…OYSTER CARD!!!

    Just do that. Don’t think about it, don’t try to improve upon it…look at London’s Oyster Card and DO THAT!

    IT…WORKS!!

  4. Yeah! I want free travel when the Presto will be hacked, just like every other smart cards out there!

  5. Yeah, that’s a good reason not to do it. When you create a perfectly secure system you be sure to let the rest of us know, eh. In the meantime, we’ll just be waiting over here…

    …anytime now…

    …no rush…

  6. umm…. You do realise that we’ll all have to pay for it if the ttc were to implement the smart cards, right? somewhere in the order of 300 million for the capital costs, and yearly another 10-20 million for the extra operating costs.

    I acknowledge that they often go overboard on needing to re-invent the wheel (e.g. CIS), but how exactly are they trying to re-invent this one?

  7. Hasn’t the Oyster card been hacked?

    Fort York should put up some signs along the north side by the railway tracks to bring some attention to it. You can go by there on the train and not even notice that it’s there because of the berm. Some better signage along the tracks would improve its exposure.

  8. Andrew: How was CIS reinventing the wheel? Just curious. The technology was piloted in 1976 and implemented system-wide in 1989-90, way before any other tracking technology which is common today was available.

  9. My GTA Pass works just fine. No reason to implement a smartcard, so long distance commuters can be charged more.

  10. The TTC has been very resistant to technology. They use the excuse of cost when, if properly implemented, it should save money in the long run. And anything can be cheated or hacked, or counterfeited as with tokens and tickets, so that’s no excuse.

    My suspicion is that the employees/union feel threatened by it.