TORONTO – TTC users will be able to use Presto readers on streetcars by the end of the year.
The TTC is rolling out a plan to equip the entire TTC network by the end of 2016 rather than the end of 2017.
Only 15 subway stations and three of the new streetcars are currently equipped with Presto technology. Smartcards, like Presto, have become the norm of modern transit systems which have quickly moved away from the tokens and tickets which the TTC still uses.
“The need is clear, our customers widely want to have a modern way of paying and now the standard practice in most of the modern systems around the world is to have a smart card, rather than the system where we have tokens, and transfers and tickets,” TTC CEO Andy Byford said.
The Presto smartcard, which will be used on the TTC, is currently used across the GO Transit network as well as throughout Ottawa’s public transit network.
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