The Toronto Transit Commission have submitted for approval the concept of using smart cards to replace existing transit tokens, tickets and passes.
If approved, tickets and tokens that is currently widely used by thousands of transit riders, may become a thing of the past.
It is not going to be an immediate implementation, however. Because even if the present leadership of the transit authority approves the replacement of the fare system, it could take five years before it could be implemented all over the city.
A report will be presented next week and estimates by consultants undertaking the study says it may cost about CAD$260 million to install the system (about 7,000 smart card readers to be set up across the whole TTC system) plus an a View the rest of this article
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