I'm looking SO forward to this.
Seriously, this describes my weekend travel to a T. I take the TTC to Union, take the GO to Meadowvale, and take Mississauga Transit shuttles from there to my destination.
Starting this summer, Mississauga Transit will recruit about 500 passengers to try the system that will allow them to board Mississauga Transit buses, GO Transit and the TTC at Union Station, all with one pass.
Me! Me! Pick me!
Thinking twice: I hope that the Mississauga Transit fare will still be 50 cents when you're taking it to or from a GO station or stop. Otherwise it won't be worth it for me to use this card if I have to pay $2.50 for the Mississauga shuttle.
Thinking thrice: I'll still need my metropass, since apparently the TTC has only signed on for fares from Union Station so far. But at least I could use the same card for two transit systems. Better than the endless tickets and quarters that are my transit life at the moment on weekends.
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Transit fare is just getting out of control. I say we, passengers send a message to the TTC by one day deciding that NONE OF US pay the TTC fare for the day. I wonder if that would work.
Hi Wendy, nice to see you here. :)
I saw a letter to the editor to that effect one time in the paper by someone who was ticked at the idea of the CN conductors striking, which could have affected GO train service. (As it turns out, the GO conductors continued their service. I had no idea that GO conductors were linked to CN!) She was saying that we should have a strike of our own and stop paying fares, which would be particularly easy on the GO since it's an honour system. Personally, I support unions, so I wouldn't do it for that reason - if anything, I would do it as a protest against the way the lines are managed.
Another editorial I read quite a while back (can't find it now, of course) was saying that it used to be that if the seats were full, you didn't have to pay a fare. Can you imagine? I'd go on a fare strike to protest the overcrowding. It pisses me off - it's as if they're thinking, hey, let's overcrowd the vehicles as much as possible so that we can get as many fares for as little service as we can. That to me would call for a fare strike.
Do you remember when the TTC operators decided to do a job action by not collecting fares for a day? The majority of riders paid anyhow. They either didn't know, or chose to pay even if they knew.
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