TOareaFan
Superstar
Only one question remains:
Using paper tickets you could only get the 65-cent co-fare if you were travelling to a GO RAIL station (or you lied and said you were). Will PRESTO give me the co-fare if I am travelling to a GO bus stop or terminal? I once got off a train at Port Credit, walked up to Mineola and still got the discount (with PRESTO), so not discriminating where the transfer is made would benefit myself and a large number of people. For one member of this board it would mean the difference between taking one local bus to the nearest GO bus stop versus two local buses in the opposite direction towards the station.
I believe how it works is that if you tap on a bus system (in my case Brampton Transit) that has an arranged co-fare and the next thing you do (within time limits of course) is tap onto the GO system it adjusts your fare.
A recent trip of mine is an example, going to work got on a Brampton Transit bus...charged me full fare...got to the train station and tapped onto GO...it adjusted my fare on BT downward and charged me the fare for the first portion of GO......tapped off an Union and the total fare ends up being what I was promised....coming home, Brampton Transit automatically charged me the 65c co-fare because the card told the system I was coming off of GO.
The one thing that Presto does is make the co-fare thing honest....you actually have to use GO not just wave a 400 year old 10-ride pass with one unused trip on it at the bus driver!
The other thing is that if you are transferring to/from GO at non train stations you don't have to explain anything to the driver...the system does it all.
So, again using Brampton Transit....someone near Kennedy Road does not have to take the 7 to the Zum head in a direction away from Toronto to go to the train station just to Co-fare...they can take the 7 to Steeles and get the bus there and the system will co-fare......I am told they always could do this but not all drivers knew (or cared to know) about co-fare and the driver who did not drive routes that would regularly see the co-fare situation would refuse to accept it....so Presto makes it easier/more predictable/reliable!
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