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DSC said:
Once you need to tap out of the subway they will need to provide a way to top-up inside the fare-paid areas - like most other cities.
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If fares remain fixed price then it'll be dealing with lost ticket issues more than needing a top-up to exit. Staff at station entrances can deal with this easily enough (let customer out; and potentially escort them to a ticket machine to buy a ticket).

Variable rate fares (such as fare by distance) will definitely require top-up capabilities near exits.

I'm not sure what those Presto self-serve boxes cost; probably $50k each so installing them in fare-paid areas at stations like Rosedale or Bessarion where staff have plenty of free time seems pointless.
 
I do know those Presto machines are also being double purposed and installed at multiple streetcar stops along QQ and Spadina, as well as the new streetcars. for fare payment I do not get why they did not give us an option to do the top up on those machines.
 
I got stranded at Pape. I exited at the station having tapped earlier on my journey on a streetcar. When I returned, I noticed that the faregates were being installed. They were powered on but still surrounded by fences. Luckily, the collector felt pity on me and let me through.

I wonder how much revenue the TTC has lost from lack of Presto support system wide and frequently offline readers. I imagine it's a lot because I've been on packed streetcars where all the Presto readers were offline and the driver just handed me a transfer.
 
Progress at Victoria Park. The wooden hoardings are down now, and a bunch of new Presto gates have arrived and are ready to be installed into what looks like a completed floor with all the wiring and hardware installed to accept them.
 
Andy T said:
Rosedale is now enabled. Eglinton will be enabled tomorrow.
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As of tomorrow:

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Poor Scarborough. Lots of talk about improving things in the east end, but I still can't count on a bus having Presto on 12, 502, 503. Slowly getting there, but I dream of the day I can not have to carry a token just in case. Are we weeks away from that? Seems like maybe yes.
 
jameskoole said:
Poor Scarborough. Lots of talk about improving things in the east end, but I still can't count on a bus having Presto on 12, 502, 503. Slowly getting there, but I dream of the day I can not have to carry a token just in case. Are we weeks away from that? Seems like maybe yes.
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Since the TTC plan was to have all stations and vehicles equipped with PRESTO by year-end and they seem to be making quite fast progress recently I think you can certainly expect to see PRESTO in Scarborough "within weeks". (There are 6+ more weeks in 2016.)
 
jameskoole said:
Poor Scarborough. Lots of talk about improving things in the east end, but I still can't count on a bus having Presto on 12, 502, 503. Slowly getting there, but I dream of the day I can not have to carry a token just in case. Are we weeks away from that? Seems like maybe yes.
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I feel you man.....when I finally got the first tap on to the 34 bus it felt so liberating.... :)
 
jameskoole said:
Poor Scarborough. Lots of talk about improving things in the east end, but I still can't count on a bus having Presto on 12, 502, 503. Slowly getting there, but I dream of the day I can not have to carry a token just in case. Are we weeks away from that? Seems like maybe yes.
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I keep hearing this sentiment, but aside from streetcars, implementation has been from west to east. What if it had been:
  • East to west? 'Transit riders in Etobicoke have been overlooked.'
  • North to south? 'Downtown transit needs are ignored once again.'
  • South to north? 'You guys have subways and we get next to nothing.'
It's shocking to look at it on a map (it looked worse when some of it was still red), but it's just a function of a structured rollout. As @DSC said, the TTC's overarching objective was full implementation by year end, and they appear well on their way to achieving it.
 
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