[Gus Haynes]

Tapping on the LRT is almost a moot point. The occasional time I've been fare checked on the platform or trains the fact I have an Arc product is good enough. They do not have hand held readers to verify if my fare is valid or not. Sometimes they station peace officers at the top in the fare paid zone on the concourse level to check fares as people exit. This was happening at Churchill yesterday. Doesn't really help with Arc still as someone can tap out I front of them but there's no way to tell

Really? I was on a bus recently, and peace officers scanned everyone's Arc cards to check if they had been properly tapped. Perhaps this is a lot easier on a stopped bus (with a captive audience) than a mass of people exiting an LRT station, though.

 

[occidentalcapital]

^I think these observations may not account for the population that has monthly passes. You don't tap those.

I thought ARC monthly passes still needed to be tapped since there's a fare cap per month?

 

[Gus Haynes]

^The old monthly passes are still sold and used, though: https://www.edmonton.ca/ets/fares-passes

 

[EdwardEdm]

Really? I was on a bus recently, and peace officers scanned everyone's Arc cards to check if they had been properly tapped. Perhaps this is a lot easier on a stopped bus (with a captive audience) than a mass of people exiting an LRT station, though.

I chose my words carefully when I suggested they don't have enough handheld readers. That's not to say they don't have some handheld readers.

 

[EdwardEdm]

I thought ARC monthly passes still needed to be tapped since there's a fare cap per month?

There are no monthly Arc passes. There's a monthly fare cap after which you don't get charged.

 

[BrettB]

Actually, there still are monthly passes. Not sure why anyone would buy one, but they can be bought online.

 

[David A]

I believe they can still also be bought in person at a number of retail stores located throughout the city, for those who do get out from time to time and don't have an extreme aversion to in person shopping.

 

[Gus Haynes]

I still see people flashing monthly passes to bus drivers whenever I take ETS. Some people prefer not to fuss with the tap system at all and don't have Arc cards for that reason. I use an Arc card myself, but the tap readers on busses can be very... temperamental, so this is a point of view that I sympathize with.

 

[Gronk!]

I still see people flashing monthly passes to bus drivers whenever I take ETS. Some people prefer not to fuss with the tap system at all and don't have Arc cards for that reason. I use an Arc card myself, but the tap readers on busses can be very... temperamental, so this is a point of view that I sympathize with.

I think it's high time the ARC servers are maintained locally instead of some underground bunker half a world away.

 

[Glenco]

I still see people flashing monthly passes to bus drivers whenever I take ETS. Some people prefer not to fuss with the tap system at all and don't have Arc cards for that reason. I use an Arc card myself, but the tap readers on busses can be very... temperamental, so this is a point of view that I sympathize with.

Seniors will be issued ARC cards starting this month. The old passes are good until the end of March

 

[yeggator]

Looks like the city has installed these rails by the vents at Century Park Station to keep people from sleeping there. Consequently, I didn’t see anyone loitering there today.

 

[IanO]

I've noticed those in a few places Downtown in the last few visits and they seem to work.

 

[thommyjo]

Some people hate hostile architecture. But in the right places it makes sense to see.

 

[snowman123]

Some people hate hostile architecture. But in the right places it makes sense to see.

Yep, if it needs to be done, then so be it. Sometimes it's just the way it has to be.

 

[The_Cat]

I think we need to think patron safety first,