Torontoist: Goodbye To Tickets, Speaker's Corner, And The Seattle Mariners

iantri

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:44:59 -0500

Tickets and tokens may be "20th century", but they don't require expensive electronic systems to implement (just a simple mechanical farebox), and they don't break down. Ever.

dowlingm

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:38:25 -0500

Svend According to TTC apolog- er... PR dude Brad Ross some corner stores are already selling tokens.

mark0

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:13:27 -0500

I am ashamed to say that I am also "so 20th century." I try to hide it, but in fact, I was born in 1983.

Ben

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:38:06 -0500

Damn that good for nothing 20th century.

Vincent Clement

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:37:59 -0500

Tokens and tickets are so 20th century.

Svend

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:20:03 -0500

Sorry, I'm not going to travel all the way to a subway station to buy tokens for a streetcar. Not going to pay the ripoff cash fare either.

heys

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:44:04 -0500

Getting rid of ticket would be terrible for me. They have a knack of falling out of a wallet. Tickets don't. This isn't a preference thing - tokens just don't work for a good chunk of the population - people without purses. Like Astin said a stored value card would be even better. It could replace tickets, tokens, metropasses, daypasses, etc. Like NYC. Tokens belong in the 18th century.

lunarworks

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:34:10 -0500

To be fair, the Speakers Corner booth was shut down, and relocated to a virtually unnoticable place (inside the old Much Store) as soon as CTV took-over and before Rogers entered the picture. Of course interest died. The prominent corner booth was the source of great content, not some silly stand-up kiosk in a store. Anyhow, I agree about the current lack of original Citytv content. CTV (who I have a growing hatred for) pruned-off most of the good stuff to keep for themselves, since it had all grown into CHUM's cable channels. There's not much left to work with, and Rogers seems incapable of thinking anything new up.

Green Sulfur

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:32:19 -0500

It'll set you back $2,000 for a table of 10 (or 5,000 for a premium table of 10; nothing less than tables of 10 available) to hear an old man tell you about walking to Vietnam up hill both ways.

james a

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:06:14 -0500

As much as I love to hate Rogers, to blame them for CityTV's suckage seems unfair.. To this casual observer it seems like it must have been at least five years ago they decided to replace 99% of their original programming with shitty bottom of the barrel reality TV.. It's gotta be a matter of time before someone invents two more clones of "The Bachelor", and City replaces the News and Breakfast Television, thus completing their transformation.

Astin

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:50:23 -0500

Now if only the TTC could figure out how to set up a debit card fare system, or a zone fare, or some other common-sense method of improving their payment methods. I never did understand the need for adult tickets. And is anybody surprised that Rogers is destroying everything that makes CityTV CityTV?