Bus tickets are by far better than this system. Here's why...1. Almost anytime you want a new presto card you have to pay $6. That is $6 just to own for a piece of plastic. A piece of plastic at the Rec Room Gaming center is half that price.2. When you load funds on a presto card, you're trusting them to hang onto your money until you use it on participating transit services, but what if there's a technical glitch that wipes out your balance and you can't prove your existing balance otherwise?3. Increased chance of frustration for the mentally disabled. With regular bus tickets, all a person has to do is insert the ticket into the machine and the river sees it and the person is good to go. No balance checks, no wireless communications needed, and no frustrations over technical glitches power outages or insufficient funds4. What if the power goes out everywhere? Imagine that... then what... How do the bus companies get compensated when people board with presto during a power outage?5. This is a tool of control because many transit systems charge a lower fare if one uses a presto card to pay for fare. In the past, one could pay a lower fare using lower-priced bus tickets specifically for that bus system, not managed by a large company.6. If you buy several bus tickets and keep many at home then take only 2 for your trip and you lose one, then you lost out on less money. whereas with presto, if you take your loaded presto card and you lose the card without bowing down and giving them all your information (to register the card), then you lost all of the money still available on it.7. Proof of payment is sad. Why? because the only way one can check for proof of payment when paying by presto is to use a card reader. (again... what if there's a power outage? would the transit service go to a halt until power is restored?). At least if tickets were purchased, that can be used as proof of payment and no technology is required to see them. I just wish this system wasn't a requirement for reduced fares.
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