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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Zoned fares are a great idea. But the question is one of enforcement. How would you enforce them in a situation where buses are flat rate everywhere? Would the person just not going to a deductible wallet on their Presto and not bother with a pass? And what's stopping me from just putting on my work address downtown and using that to discount my pass on Presto?
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One way this could be done is to design the exoGreenbelt LRT stations to require a tap out that adds the extra fare. I mentioned an idea before to treat each suburb (Orleans, Kanata, Barrhaven) as separate zones with half fares on local routes so that intra-suburb travel is cheap to encourage transit use within (say someone's house in Covent Glen to Place d'Orléans) but charge a fare-and-a-half for travel into downtown (which is automatically done when they tap in to get on the LRT or a cross-town bus). Three types of passes could be offered, a full regional, a core pass, and a cheap local suburban pass. The limited passes would have electronic wallets incorporated for trips to other zones.
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