Posted Apr 17, 2012, 9:19 PM
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One issue will be that for occasional riders and tourists, they would have to pay cash if the tickets are removed. One solution I could think of is a special PRESTO card that is not personalized, but simply prepaid. It could have, say, 5 or 10 regular-fare or reduced-fare rides pre-installed. Such would not be compatible with express routes (they would have to pay the balance), but express routes are almost never used by tourists.
A mid-term goal should be to encourage outlying municipalities to get their regional systems onto PRESTO as well (although obviously the fares would be dramatically different).
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