by Matthew Mitchell
Silverliner II wrote:Caltrain is a legacy system that switched to POP, and I presume commuter trains in Montréal and Toronto operated with traditional ticketing at some point, though I don't know whether it was after AMT and GO respectively took over.Every one of them uses POP (proof of payment) fare verification.True for the nine systems in question, and that is how they have been since startup, unlike the older systems like SEPTA and others in the Northeast.
Not one of them forces all riders to use the tag-off system like SEPTA is proposing.That is true too. Even on GO, you only have to tag out on PRESTO cards with specific types of fares.
Correct. If you pay for a monthly pass, you designate a regular trip on your PRESTO, and you only tag on and off if you are going on a different line or beyond your regular destination. If there's a POP inspection, you must either have a paper fare receipt (from the TVM), a PRESTO card valid at the location where the inspection is, or a PRESTO card that's been tagged on at the boarding station.
Wasn't SEPTA planning some kind of alternative for people using Trailpasses and Transpasses with the crew scanning them on board? Especially since all the Trailpasses have "Anywhere" privileges on weekends?I have not heard anything about something like that.