07-24-2024, 06:49 PM
(07-17-2024, 09:37 PM)bravado Wrote: Imagine thinking we have "unique customer needs" compared to the far-and-away biggest transit payment system in the country. Just more nonsense language to protect some specific little Regional silo/fiefdom. It wouldn't be Canadian policy if it wasn't weird little feuding between governments without anybody considering the interest of the citizens!
There were literally fare products that GRT offered which Presto did not did not have and refused to add them to the system for GRT, including the ability to accept payment on MobilityPLUS vehicles, the ability to integrate a U-Pass program and the ability to issue machine readable paper tickets from fare vending machines.
https://web.archive.org/web/202309271711...3-1112.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/commen...e/hjbbbw7/
So, yes, we did truly have unique customer needs.
I feel that you have a bit of a blindspot with respect to supposed silos and fiefdoms.