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The TTC has apparently joined the 20th century and given its customers the ability to buy their metropasses with debit cards! According to IT Business.ca, the TTC signed a contract with IBM over three years ago but has just started to roll out two machines at Finch and one at Eglinton stations. The TTC will be installing seven more machines throughout the system. Sadly only one of the three machines are currently functional.
According to-oh-so accurate TTC surveys, the debit kiosk at Finch station has received an astounding 92% customer approval rating (which is probably the exact opposite of Howard Moscoe's approval rating as TTC chair).
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maybe, one day, if we're lucky... credit cards!?!?
I'd settle for skipping debit and putting a staffer at the gate at St. Andrew station in the mornings so that all us poor schleps with transfers don't have to stand in line as trains pass by while people buy tickets and tokens and metro passes from the only ticket taker in the entire station at the height of rush hour.
Weird. I've been reading from the official site that they've had debit and credit card for a while. Perhaps they hadn't yet implemented it.
Quote: "Pay by Debit card at: Finch, Kennedy, Kipling and Downsview."Pay by Debit or Credit card at: Union, Dundas (east side only), Bloor-Yonge (north side only), and Davisville stations."
shouldn't it be the 21st century???? ... just asking
Ed's note: fixed!
They've had Debit at Kipling for a while now - but you have to be an early bird because they sell out like HOT CAKES!
Hello and welcome to September 2005? Didn't they roll out the machines to coincide with the newly improved Metropass?
I paid for the July metropass by Credit Card at Union (huge queue) but yesterday received my first (August) Metropass Discount Plan card in the post!
Nope... I stand by 20th century. Debit has been around for so long now that every single store (even your little mom and pop corner stores) have debit. We're not talking about some fringe alternative cash method here (ahem dexit) but debit.
Damnit Ron, now I gotta change it back!
Welcome to the mid-90s!
They have had debit machines at a few stations for a while... either Yonge, Eglinton, or St.Clair.. cos I can visualize the hand-drawn "Debit for Metropass purchase only" sign clearly in my mind.
There is also a not-yet-working metropass machine at Eglinton--very simmilar to NYCs kiosks. It's been there for over a month now, turned on and saying service will be up-and-running soon...
_I used to regularly buy a monthly Metropass by credit card (at Union Stn.'s entry booth), like 15 years ago. The only real difference: a credit card doesn't have a costly transaction fee like a debit card.
They certainly have been slow in rolling out debit payment and vending machines... but who needs that crap when they'll deliver the pass to your door every month and debit your bank account, and at a discount to boot? Standing in line is for chumps!
Classic
Not only that but you can get Canadian Tire money on their Credit Card :)