There was an article in yesterday's Star about Stintz's likely futile attempt to accelerate the Presto rollout for TTC:
TTC chair wants Metrolinx to speed up Presto launch
One statement caught my eye: "Because there’s no point retrofitting old streetcars when the TTC is beginning the roll-out of new low-floor vehicles, Stintz said she understands that Presto can’t be available on all 11 streetcar routes by next year."
Wait ... so if you carry that to it's logical conclusion, then Presto rollout for TTC won't be complete until the old streetcars are retired, currently planned for 2019?
Not sure why you wouldn't stick the same Presto units on the existing streetcars, that you'd be putting on the buses. I'd have though it would been easier to have done all 250 or so streetcars, than it would be to 2,000 or so buses. Probably closer to 200 or so streetcars by 2016 ... so at the end of the day you have 200 or so extra Presto units ... which presumably you'd need as the bus fleet grows once the new garage opens around 2019.