It took Toronto 20 years longer than everyone else to abandon tokens and paper tickets, but that doesn’t mean we should wait that long to stop people abusing the new order
Anyone who has ever sat through a Toronto Transportation Commission meeting has likely heard anecdotal evidence that fare evasion on the transit system is utterly rampant, if not a mockery of Western civilization itself. Traditionally, such people tended to be treated as harmless cranks. TTC staff would placate them with various internal audits conducted over the years that found roughly two-per-cent fare loss. As recently as 2017, the TTC was claiming just 1.
I feel stupid suggesting that parents write names on the cards, but it’s not among the auditor-general’s 28 recommendations. Infuriatingly, the report suggests discontinuing the child cards altogether until the TTC can get a handle on fraud.Nuts to that, says I. Torontonians shouldn’t suffer further for the truly insane reasons this seems to be such a problem. To wit:– When a fare inspector busts an adult using a child card, he can issue a $235 fine.
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