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Despite the big money recently announced by the province for transit, and the current city council budget debates to stop the fare hike, taking the TTC is slated to cost you more beginning tomorrow:
Adults
Cash: $2.50 (current fare) --> $2.75 (new fare)
Tickets / Tokens: $2.00 --> $2.10
Students / Seniors:
Cash: $1.70 --> $1.85
Tickets / Tokens: $1.33 --> $1.40
Kids
Cash: $0.60 --> $0.70
Tickets / Tokens: $0.45 --> $0.47
Day Pass: $8.00 --> $8.50
The Monthly Metropass remains the same goes up a dollar, but still manages to avoid the psychologically damaging $100 barrier. The Weekly pass price doesn't change.
It's a shame it's going to cost us more - but I guess they need the money to fix up a few damaged vehicles.
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The metropass went up $1, to $99.75. Still psychologically damaging, though.
Sean, I think you should do an exposé about why Torontonians refuse to line up politely for transit.
I moved here from Montreal, where at bus stops there is a nice lineup, so that the person who got there first gets on first. Here, it's a total free-for-all. I always wonder why, considering that Montreal does not have a particularly polite reputation. Thoughts?
i mostly ride streetcars, and people generally adhere to the behavior you are talking about, anon,
when it comes to buses, if the bus stops before the pole, whoever is standing by the door will enter first.
I second Kevin's comment. I've found generally people are orderly. University students, on the other hand, are absolutely silly about trying to enter an emptying classroom. And in a place of learning too!
Totally not my experience here. At all. I take the streetcar to work and back every day and see stuff all the time. Often people will stand on the OTHER side of the shelter from the stop so as to sneak in from the side. And at any major intersection on the Dundas line (such as Yonge and Bathurst) people will actually push. At my stop at Dundas and Dovercourt it is very rare that the first person to get there actually gets on first. And there are little old Portuguese ladies who are very aggressive there. Once one of them laid both hands on me and shoved me out of her way.
I'm not kidding about the lines. I really mean lines, as in single file. I saw a line here once, at Dundas and Dufferin for the northbound bus, but it was still stupid, because for some reason people extended the line ACROSS the sidewalk instead of along it. Yeesh.
Once I solve this mystery I may move on to why people here won't move into the transit car to let more people on. Every morning on the way to work on the Metro there was no need to hold on to the pole because you're packed in so close... it allows the most possible people to get on.
Oh sigh.
I'm not sure why Torontonians are particularly pushy. I don't have much experience on other transit systems (I haven't left the GTA in over four years (except once to Barrie (and I was the only person on the Barrie bus)).
I lived in India for a while, and if you've ever seen a picture taken in India, you likely know there are tons of people. They were super pushy - and I remember thinking back to how polite Torontonians were. Bus rides could last for hours and be extremely enduring to those who didn't make it to a seat (especially the buses that climb into the hilly areas). One technique I picked up there was to through my kerchief (everyone, I mean EVERYONE, carries a kerchief in India) from the outside through the bus window as it was pulling into the bus bay. A kerchief on a seat commanded the most respect - and no one was willing to steal a seat reserved using this method.
the crappy oc transpo bus fare in ottawa is $3... and it's crappy.