09-19-2015, 02:59 PM
Has anyone ever gotten a tour of the new(ish) facility GRT built over in the Laurentian Power Centre area? It's such a beautiful building (those clerestory windows are fantastic); I'd love to see the inside some day.
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09-19-2015, 06:52 PM
(09-19-2015, 02:59 PM)Canard Wrote: Has anyone ever gotten a tour of the new(ish) facility GRT built over in the Laurentian Power Centre area? It's such a beautiful building (those clerestory windows are fantastic); I'd love to see the inside some day. Maybe they could open it up for Doors Open next year? You should suggest it to the Doors Open folks. 
09-30-2015, 10:58 PM
Ridership to Conestoga College is apparently significantly higher this year - the frequency on the 110 is being increased from every 30 mins to every 20.
10-01-2015, 12:34 PM
This Fall broke records at Conestoga Doon Campus for enrolment numbers I was told. That would explain the influx of usage at Doon.
10-06-2015, 11:20 AM
The new Electronic Payment fare card has been announced.
"EasyGO Fare Card" <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">First look at the new <a href="https://twitter.com/GRT_ROW">@GRT_ROW</a> payment card, called the "EasyGO fare card" <a href="http://t.co/kvqj8ipVrj">http://t.co/kvqj8ipVrj</a> <a href="http://t.co/KsVP7dSrQO">pic.twitter.com/KsVP7dSrQO</a></p>— Mark Jackson-Brown (@Markster3000) <a href="https://twitter.com/Markster3000/status/651414529528733696">October 6, 2015</a></blockquote> Full announcement: http://www.grt.ca/en/fares/EasyGOFareCard.asp
10-06-2015, 11:53 AM
Makes sense to use an existing brand. Would be nice to have the Ion logo on there as well; perhaps it will be on the back?
10-06-2015, 12:41 PM
Maybe they will put it on in 2 years when service starts.
10-07-2015, 12:02 AM
10-07-2015, 06:04 AM
But it's not branded as ion. There are no ion logos at any of the stops, and the busses are still called iXpress. The ion busses don't come online until 2017.
10-07-2015, 08:13 AM
The front of the card should say easyGO. That's it. The back can have all the relevant info about where it's accepted. The front should be clean and not cluttered like it is currently.
Also, the system starts going live next year. It will probably say Ion on the back because it makes no sense for there to be two different production runs of the same card. It would be even easier to just say "this card accepted everywhere you see the easy GO logo", so the region doesn't attempt to put all their transit logos on one card.
10-07-2015, 08:53 AM
The report at Council last June suggests the fare management system was supposed to be running by this fall, not 2016. I'm curious what happened to delay the roll-out.
10-07-2015, 10:52 AM
Probably the things that always happen, little slips in time here and there.
Realistically, the deadline is when ION is up and running, and the process was started early enough to allow this kind of slippage. There's no need to rush to meet an arbitrarily early date and screw things up. The latest I heard was that they would be doing small scale testing through the Fall, with the system going fully live sometime in 2016.
10-07-2015, 02:43 PM
All the bus fareboxes have to be replaced before they can do full rollout, so that could take some time.
10-08-2015, 11:16 AM
An easy way to do preliminary testing would be for the corporate users who buy year-long packs of passes (such as myself, through my $5 Carshare membership) to be given EasyGO cards. Bus drivers who had the system would be able to scan it and see a monthly pass (for any of months 1-12 in the pack that an individual user is on). Bus drivers who did not have a system could be dealt with in one of two ways. Either you ask the person to continue carrying around their corporate card for this case (inconvenient, and means two cards are floating around), or you only give the cards to those who have at least X number of months left, where X is the time to a full rollout. Then, drivers without the system would know that seeing an EasyGO card is equivalent to seeing a corporate pass.
10-08-2015, 01:52 PM
(10-08-2015, 11:16 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: An easy way to do preliminary testing would be for the corporate users who buy year-long packs of passes (such as myself, through my $5 Carshare membership) to be given EasyGO cards. Bus drivers who had the system would be able to scan it and see a monthly pass (for any of months 1-12 in the pack that an individual user is on). Bus drivers who did not have a system could be dealt with in one of two ways. Either you ask the person to continue carrying around their corporate card for this case (inconvenient, and means two cards are floating around), or you only give the cards to those who have at least X number of months left, where X is the time to a full rollout. Then, drivers without the system would know that seeing an EasyGO card is equivalent to seeing a corporate pass. Don't corporate passes have a photo on them? |
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