I do apologize for coming across as what's good enough for me is good enough for everybody, but that's not the intent. The intent is to separate the cards. If someone has an adult card in the first place it gets checked for tap or no tap.
Most cheating fare adults will only have the yellow card on them,
I quite doubt that actually. I'm willing to bet if someone's willing to be that dishonest, they likely have a backup plan.
, if not, then the card still gets checked eventually...but by the time it gets checked, it's cheaper to pay the fine than it is to pay the fare.
I'm just trying to do something about it.
There's zero good reason to do that though. It costs all of
$5.05$6.05 to get a brand new adult fare presto card with a $0.05 balance. If someone wants to game the system, it's easy enough and cheap enough for them to do. If you want to solve that problem, you need more people checking those cards and more employees in general around to catch them being used.
Or (radical idea here, being implemented more and more across the globe), you just make the TTC completely free and 100% government funded. Then the costs of fare inspectors, the bureaucracy and legal fees associated with fare evasion go away completely. In addition to
potentiallyvery likely lowering costs associated with car use like road maintenance, pedestrian-related accidents, costs of towing and enforcing parking infractions, general road congestion cost on the economy, pollution-related health problem, noise pollution, etc.
Much like a Universal Basic Income, we know exactly how to solve certain problems. Unfortunately, some people who insist on defining themselves as "taxpayers" don't like the idea of stuff like that being free (of course, never acknowledging that the roads they regularly drive on are also "free"), regardless of whether they actually cost less in the long run.
