With plans for flexible transfers, introduction of a weekly transit pass, and a variety of other reforms, will Ridership soar if implemented?

The TTC probably won't realize huge revenue gains, but the flexible transfers alone should be a major boost to ridership.

I do think that it will increase, but it is difficult to say how fast it will occur. Hopefully it will meet the expectations of the TTC because the plans will bring people back but if the growth is at an unsatisfactory rate, the plans could potentially be repealled.

I personally will go more places and do more things if they put these plans into practice.

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so what ur saying, is that where you go and what you do depends on the deals that the TTC offers????

^Yes actually I am, but I think that you are not seeing the big picture.

For instance, with the new rules for the day pass, I will be able take the TTC downtown when I have guests from out of town instead of a car. It quickly becomes cheaper to take the TTC for 4 or more people with the revised system than it does a car.

The allowance of the transfer to allow stop overs will also give me the ability to stop on my way home from school/work to pick up some groceries without having to pay another fare. This also goes for anytime when on my way somewhere and want to stop and get something.

This all sounds silly but it adds up quickly to alot of change with every time you enter the system costing you $2.25. That can really hurt your bank accounts if you are a full time student in secondary educational studies and work is not an option during the school year.

What it boils down too is that I am more likely to visite different parts of the city because it is now much more hassel free than having to keep bus tickets and tokens for a return trip and so on.

I think this recommendation is right on the money. Me, I like the metropass, but this will be great for those who don't really need the TTC as often. Or for those, like me again, that are studying outside the town and don't want to buy the metropass when they're only in town for 2-4 days of the week.

If the day pass became a weekend pass, I would probably a couple of them a month.

Outside of that, nothing in the proposals interested me. Timed transfers would be useful for the odd day I walk into a station and remember I forgot something at home.

If they do implement timed transfers, they should be short. 45 minutes or less. Folks shouldn't be able to ride it entirely across the city and back for $2, but going to the local store (20 minutes away) and back seems reasonable.

Ill definately take advantage of the timed transfers...I have to go uptown sometimes to pick up my cheque from work (takes an entire 3 minutes if that) and it totally sucks to have to pay another $2.25 to get back. It would also be worth making small shopping trips outside the downtown core if this were to happen.

I've always liked the idea of a weekly transit pass. I've only rarely used the TTC enough to get much benefit out of a monthly pass, but sometimes you got a busy week and a weekly pass would be very handy. Like when looking for an apartment, or when you got guests in town, or there's festivals that you want to get to, or you're on vacation. A weekend pass would be good to.

^Yes actually I am, but I think that you are not seeing the big picture.

For instance, with the new rules for the day pass, I will be able take the TTC downtown when I have guests from out of town instead of a car. It quickly becomes cheaper to take the TTC for 4 or more people with the revised system than it does a car.

The allowance of the transfer to allow stop overs will also give me the ability to stop on my way home from school/work to pick up some groceries without having to pay another fare. This also goes for anytime when on my way somewhere and want to stop and get something.

This all sounds silly but it adds up quickly to alot of change with every time you enter the system costing you $2.25. That can really hurt your bank accounts if you are a full time student in secondary educational studies and work is not an option during the school year.

What it boils down too is that I am more likely to visite different parts of the city because it is now much more hassel free than having to keep bus tickets and tokens for a return trip and so on.

Even though I am a captive rider, "true true!" to all of this post.

With Perth's (Australia) Transit fares, Transperth provide for free transfers between different modes, like TTC. You pay by the number of zones you travel. The Zones are basically concentric rings about 8km/5 mi in width, around the CBD/downtown and there are 9 for Greater Perth. The normal fares also have a time limit. Travel through 4 zones or less and they give you 2 hours to use the fare. So if your regular trip can be done well under two hours it is possible to use the leftover time to stop for groceries, etc or take a different route.

They also provide day passes with unlimited day travel quite cheaply, as well as Multiriders, which are prepaid trips with bulk discount, which are priced according to the no of trips you buy (10 or 40) and number of zones you want to use the Multirider.

In my opinion, this is quite a good system and far superior than what I actually deal with in Sydney, my home city. But Toronto whoops Sydney's & Perth's arse when it comes to PT services. ;) (with some exceptions)

This will only help the TTC and ridership.