Johnny Au
Senior Member
Pepsi actually.I don't know, from the looks of it I can barely tell it's Union, and that all they sell is Coke.
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Gateway changed pop suppliers a few years ago.
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Pepsi actually.I don't know, from the looks of it I can barely tell it's Union, and that all they sell is Coke.
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But they wanted to talk about fare integration...
Not really. The politicians who made a promise want them to talk about fare integration. The people making the budgets want absolutely nothing to do with it and say as much every time it comes up.
Okay, so you think GO would just say "oh jeeze, guess we better hire extra staff to deal with all these TTC only customers" or "hope our own customers don't complain about the unusually long lines"?
Nope. They'll clawback that added operating expense either directly from the city as a Presto implementation surcharge or through other means; particularly when Brown asks GO to cut their operating deficit by 20%.
A new card costs $6 plus a minimum load of $10 and can be purchased and loaded:
- Via the PRESTO website
- At any GO Train Station in Mississauga
- At the MiWay Tickets & Passes Booth at Islington Subway Station or the City Centre Transit Terminal
- At Mississauga Community Centres
- The Square One GO Bus Terminal (240 Centre View Drive)
- TTC's new self-serve reload machine at Islington Subway Station
Mississauga does that and seems to have no issues doing so:
I certainly agree that having printed schedules on the 10-minute routes was stupid and wasteful but agree that having them on low frequency routes would be good IF THE TTC ACTUALLY RAN TO THE SCHEDULE! What would still (and always) be useful would be some ROUTE MAPS along the route. Torontonians may know that the 504 runs from Dundas West to Broadview but tourists certainly don't and many do not yet know that the 514 runs along most of the same route.At least provide printed schedules for low frequency routes.
Alternatively you could be a transit geek and memorize every route and approximate frequency at most times of the day.You got to give it to the TTC - utterly failing to modernize where it matters and counting on riders having universal adoption of technology and not providing alternatives otherwise.
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I've never believed the printed schedules, especially on streetcar routes. Instead have an app like Uber that shows exactly where the bus or streetcar is.In my opinion, this is premature.
The savings are relatively small; the rollout of the digital signs is more than a decade from completion, and the ownership rate of smartphones is still under 80%.
Printed schedules should stay until 100% of shelters have digital signs; and/or the smartphone penetration rate exceeds 97%
I've never believed the printed schedules, especially on streetcar routes. Instead have an app like Uber that shows exactly where the bus or streetcar is.