I got only the GO ID in university, so I had to make sure I never bought a TTC monthly pass which has the discount (single ride is adult fare). If I did, I would have been guilty of fare evasion and owe $425. Same for someone with a TTC PS ID who dares ride GO on the same card (fine up to $200).
For instance: GO Transit post-secondary discounts requires an ID you apply for online. TTC requires you visit Bathurst station during business hours to pay a fee and get a photo. Both set the same status to your PRESTO card for a lower fare, but agency’s ID require to avoid agency’s pricy fines.
This will address issues like
1. Uncoordinated schedules increasing transfer times between agencies’ services like GO
2. Different concession policies that make stuff like using both TTC and GO as a post-secondary student very hard
3. Different prices depending on direction for cross-boundary trips
Fare increases are politically unpopular, making them quite unlikely. Hamilton and Burlington both have lower PRESTO fares at $3. The bill doesn’t impact flat fares or transfers within an agency. Read the text of the Fare Alignment and Seamless Transit Act. TTC can’t function as a separate fiefdom.
Stop the fearmongering! Bill 98 is a generally good bill that will require the TTC to function within an integrated regional transit network, with coordinated fares, concessions, and schedules. Fare increases are unlikely because it is unpalatable (both HSR and Burlington have lower PRESTO rates).
No, it just means train your fare inspectors better so that they go after the right people.
My understanding is that operations remain with OCTranspo (similar to how the province owns Line 5 Eglinton in Toronto while the TTC operates the line, sets fares and schedules, and provides customer service).
As for LRT extensions, those weren’t going to happen without provincial funding anyways.
Even bigger, decent service agencies like Halifax Metro Transit, BC Transit, and London Transit Commission (Ontario) employ no fare inspectors or special constables. MiWay Mississauga has a few security guards, mostly for at terminals.
US has similar situation in even more populous cities.
I think some of that is cultural. The default police car design in the US (which to my chagrin has spread here to Canada) is black and white. UK law requires a special blue and yellow pattern scientifically optimized for high visibility. Hi-viz is also very common for non-US police (see & be seen).
Canadian police some times do foot or bike patrols but not to the degree that Australian or European forces do in urban areas. American police are even worse in that they are standoffish with negligible manners and don’t get the “citizen service” role at all.
But that is a new operating cost, particularly for small agencies. In North America, only the biggest transit agencies or those with POP rail/bus networks employ fare enforcement teams or even transit security/police units (PS police should not do fare enforcement but criminal law enforcement).
What did the benches do? 🤣
So what is NJT doing for regular commuters going everywhere else, if they’re only running FIFA trains?
Some of it is performative.
My Canadian city passed a resolution banning ICE — which has no jurisdiction in Canada to begin with.
I would argue people think there is a normal. They don’t see a difference between extra FIFA departures and normal event or commute trips. Are there special stopping patterns or no need to change at Secaucus? Other host cities (like Toronto) are running extra service at no extra cost to passengers.
I think the outrage has to do with the amount of the increase over “normal” price. You would see the same if the cost of business class flights tripled or the cost of eggs tripled.
“If you see something that doesn’t look right, talk to a member of staff or text the British Transport Police on 61016 and we’ll sort it. See it. Say it. Sorted”
Was Finland’s north-south?
CityNews wants to blame the pedestrian?
With enough scandals, eventually he’ll be out of office (he is already under one RCMP investigation, I think they could always find reasons to start some more).
Fun fact, the Burlington Lift Bridge is one of the few pieces of federally owned infrastructure in the region regularly used by the general public.
TSSA regulation.
The first complaint doesn’t really apply to FIFA (I call bull on them crying poor), it more applies to smaller hosts than established national/international sporting events like World Cups, Grand Finals, National Opens, and State of Origin.
It’s not perfect. There have been complaints in Sydney that these mandatory costs make hosting big sporting and music events at these venues less appealing or discourage these large events to begin with.
There’s also a scandal involving NSW Police Force drug detection practices at these events.
I think some people on this site would be fine if there was basically no big industrial development and in particular resource extraction.
Though we have to ask if and why our construction and health and safety have gone so far that basically any construction requires and engineering occupation of the line. I think earlier projects to add track or stations or grade separate lines have been done with less disruption.
UPExpress and Kitchener Line services are suspended today between Union and Bramalea so they better be working hard on the Kitchener fourth track.
That’s a good campaign approach for @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
Is that a stop for every door of the mall for crying out loud!?
I should mention that Doors Open Toronto is a larger city-wide architectural and cultural oriented weekend-long event where all sorts of buildings are open for free tours that they don’t normally do. So you also have museums, schools, religious places, restaurants, court house, etc.