Grand River Transit

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Imagine if Costco stores in Toronto only took MBNA Mastercard. The Kitchener one only took Visa Debit. Maybe LCBOs in Burlington only took brim Mastercard but the ones in Waterloo took Scotiabank Visa. Canadian Tire only took BMO Visa...IKEA only took cash...McDonalds made you use American Express etc. You'd have to carry around a fat stack of plastic cards, cash and coins anywhere you went because you'd be stuck relying on all these different payment methods. It would be a huge pain in the ass. The same would be true if instead of Presto, each region relied on their own crappy card like we do so going seamlessly from Waterloo Region to Ottawa would be a bit of a headache. Thankfully, just like payment methods, most of these important regions have simplified and provided an acceptable quality product to their consumers in the form of Presto with the exception of this region.