TTC closes collector booths at Yorkdale and Lawrence West stations
Posted January 6, 2019 11:32 am.
Last Updated January 6, 2019 1:51 pm.
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As it continues its ongoing “modernization” efforts, the TTC will permanently close the collector booths at two more subway stations on Sunday.
Yorkdale and Lawrence West are the two latest stations to close their booths as the implementation of Presto continues across the system.
Booths will be replaced by customer service agents as well as Presto and fare vending machines at these stations.
Transit riders on the new Line 1 extension are already familiar with the change as the new model was already in place when they opened just over a year ago.
Customers can still buy tickets and tokens at all other TTC stations that still have collector booths and can use them as well as exact change to pay their fare at stations that have phased them out, if they do not have a Presto card.
However, the TTC says it will stop selling tokens and tickets altogether on Aug. 3 and will stop accepting them at the end of 2019. Metropasses were already discontinued at the end of last year and must now be purchased and loaded onto a Presto card, available at any subway station entrance.
The TTC began phasing out collector booths back in December of 2017, with Sheppard West and Wilson being the first two stations to eliminate them. Collector booths at all TTC stations will eventually be closed.
