06-24-2020, 12:43 PM
(06-23-2020, 09:22 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(06-23-2020, 08:07 PM)taylortbb Wrote: Those are all issues that Presto had too. The Presto website is now, more than a decade later, not garbage. But it definitely started that way. TVMs not working, validators not working, etc are all problems that have happened with every Presto rollout. The only that hasn't is cash fares, and that's because Presto doesn't support cash fares, requiring agencies to instead run totally parallel cash payment systems with incompatible transfers. Which has the effect of making ridership and transfer tracking far more difficult, or impossible, for agencies using Presto.
Presto uses much of the same equipment we do, just with different software. If we're having hardware failures then Presto would have too.
Maybe, but none of those issues applied to TTC adopting Presto which only happened after those issues were ironed out, nor would they have applied to us. I'd have preferred if we had bought a system that had those issues fixed. I don't want to wait another 10 years for this bullshit to get fixed in our system. It is absurd, that with a completely standard system, we were unable to buy a working off the shelf solution, whether presto, or whatever.
It's not as simple as just "Buying" presto. If they went with Presto (Which they didn't because at the time they didn't have the features needed, and Presto did not enter a bid), it would have to be integrated into the Presto network, and a portion of every fare would have to be paid to Presto.
While it would be nice to have the same card as the GTA, I have no problems having both a Presto card and a GRT card (I only carry around my presto card when I head to the GTA. Last time I used it was in November.)
At this point, to change the system over to Presto would not be cheap, and would likely lead to fare increases.