Last Day For Adult Ticket Swap On TTC
Posted October 31, 2008 12:00 pm.
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Got any adult TTC tickets in your pocket or purse? Use them now or forever hold your peace. Friday is the last day they’ll be accepted on the system.
The Red Rocket has been plagued by a wave of forgeries and made the decision earlier this year to phase out the multi-coloured adult tickets after too many people were making illegal copies of them, costing the Commission a small fortune.
It was a loss the always cash strapped system couldn’t afford so they decided to deal with the problem by no longer dealing with the tickets. From now on, adults riding the buses, subways or streetcars will have to use tokens. An exchange program has been under way for the past few months, but it ends on Friday.
If you still have unused adult fares hanging around, you can exchange them one last time at the Bloor-Yonge subway station until 7pm or the TTC’s head office at 1900 Yonge St. (off the Davisville subway station) until 5pm.
You have to make the swap in person and anyone holding 50 or more of them will have to go to the latter address.
The change doesn’t affect student, senior or children’s tickets, which can still be used.
It’s not the first time the TTC has been forced to change the way they handle the price of admission. In November 2006, the Commission introduced new harder-to-copy multi-coloured tokens, after too many counterfeits and slugs were dropped into turnstiles and fare boxes. It cost them $1.7 million to make the replacements – or about 8 cents per coin.
