(03-04-2022, 12:42 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: The hardware is still garbage, (remember at one point, so many units were broken, that they didn't have enough spares to swap in working units at all the LRT stations)
A lot of of the hardware is the same hardware Presto uses. EasyGo and Presto use slightly different models of fare vending machines, but they're from the same series by the same vendor. Presto also uses the same tap poles as ION stations for some of the GO/UPX stations. Presto doesn't have a combo cash/tap fare box, because Presto doesn't handle cash fares anywhere (which is a huge weakness of the system).
(03-04-2022, 02:26 PM)Bytor Wrote: I'm confused as to why people still think it was some huge debacle that we don't have Presto.
Not to mention that every Presto installation has had their own significant issues, usually far worse than what we went through with EasyGO.
I think the question is one of value of integration with the rest of the province. Presto would have been individually worse for us in some ways, but there's significant value in being the same as the rest of the province. GO/GRT fare integration should be seamless, but it never will be as long as we're not on Presto.
You are correct though that every Presto rollout has had major issues. I think EasyGo had about an average number of problems for a fare card rollout, and I'm benchmarking not just against Presto but against other systems elsewhere in the world. The rollouts are generally terrible for the same reasons all rollouts of enterprise software are generally terrible.