The TTC - Refunds
I'll never understand the TTC scheme of things, so I live with it.
But the logic pains me.
I have half-a-dozen tickets, paper tickets, not
tokens, in my wallet. The TTC has begun to replace them each year. This
year they are brown, last year perhaps green, next year, who knows?
"I'm told that the idea is 'security"; changing the tickets each year thwarts the forgers.
I think not.
Load a different colour paper, or ink, into the
word-processing file, and press "Start" again. Also reduce printing
towards December, because you won't be able to sell that many tickets at the end of the year..
To alleviate public disgust for casual users who
get stuck with unused tickets, the TTC in its infinite wisdom has
instituted a scheme for replacement whereby you can upgrade tickets at
specific stations for a while, after which you must travel, by subway,
to the head office at Davisville.
It is not yet clear to me whether this will necessitate two more tickets down the drain just to reclaim the balance.
Here's the puzzle: Why not allow ANY station
ticket-issuer to swap old tickets for new? Why force
ticket-holders to traipse from, say, Kipling to Bloor-Yonge, transfer,
north to Davisville, and back again, instead of just swapping tickets
next time through Kipling?
I assume, of course, that TTC ticket sellers in
their little kiosks are honest, can be trusted with thousands of
dollars in cash, thousands of metal tokens, and hundreds of tickets.
I assume, of course, that at close of shift, a
ticket kiosk person completes a register indicating that the
dollar-value of tickets, tokens, passes and cash adds up to what it did
at the start.
As an aside, I assume too that they are smart
enough to toss in a toonie if they are short by two dollars; it's really
not worth the hassle to re-count.
I can't come up with a logical (read "rational" or
"sane") reason not to allow kioskers to swap or refund seniors and
student paper-tickets.
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