DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
If I like your update, you can interpret that as "I have updated the map".
Might be a stupid question but I find it odd why we're investing in new fare gates instead of getting rid of them all together. The Go Train seems to operate fine without fare gates, as does all of German rapid transit from my experience. Does buying these fare gates plus the maintenance costs work out to cheaper than hiring more fare inspectors?
one cannot check all riders esp on morning and evening rush when you cant even move. On GO inspectors have the luxury of few stations and large gaps in between so tha they have time to check. our subways stop every few hundred meters in the core. Also gates are pretty universal globally. Go and the German system are pretty much outliers
Can you take a picture to illustrate? Maybe they plan to remove the booth?I've been to Lansdowne station a few times recently and the placement of the gates seems relly odd. The two collectors booths at the station. One is closed off and has stickers on the windows to cover it are on the other side of the new faee gate line.
I've been to Lansdowne station a few times recently and the placement of the gates seems relly odd. The two collectors booths at the station. One is closed off and has stickers on the windows to cover it are on the other side of the new faee gate line.
Lansdowne currently requires a paper transfer to transfer from or to a bus or the subway. Same with Dufferin, High Park, Runnymede, Jane, Old Mill, and several others. See map below.
With PRESTO, instead of showing the operator your paper transfer, you would use the PRESTO card to enter through the fare gate where it should recognize the "transfer". In theory, of course.
Per the PRESTO Twitter account, the fare gates at the main entrance of Ossingston Station are now open:
https://twitter.com/PRESTOcard/status/778255602791219201
The good news for some of these stations/bus routes is that we will now get accurate number counts. Previously when the accessible gate was opened the paper transfer and metropass users streamed through this and not through turnstiles. relying on occasional manual number counts is not accurate. Post-Presto everyone will have to use a gate and we will know exactly the number of people using a subway stop and the bus. I'm thinking of the 66 with all the residents near the Humber.
Of course a double edged sword. Older bus routes may have lower numbers.
I just hope that the TTC will publish these counts and they act on them.