16 McCowan Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 #1821, #7325, #7332, #8340, #8367, #8389, and #8448 are Presto ready. Tracker also states #7309 and #7346 are likely not in the road meaning they are stored or soon to be retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 +1675 (That's a Wilson bus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted July 13, 2016 Report Share Posted July 13, 2016 +1559, 8373 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buurin Posted July 13, 2016 Report Share Posted July 13, 2016 +1795,8325,1732 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 +8539, 8548 8539 was non-function at first when the driver just started the bus (Arrow drivers shuts down their buses during layovers). It took a couple minutes till it initiates and becomes functional. As I said before, seeing a functional reader doesn't mean it's non function. It might have just lost it's location and may become functional 15 minutes later. All Arrow 40ft Novas should have presto readers installed. Every day 9 consecutive Nova's goes for presto installation and doesn't appear in service on that day. This trend have shuffle through the entire fleet. The artics are the only buses left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordankcw Posted July 19, 2016 Report Share Posted July 19, 2016 Add on 1799, it was functioning while on the 501 Queen shuttle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted July 19, 2016 Report Share Posted July 19, 2016 +8522 I think it's fair to just track all buses with presto readers unless it has a sticker covering it. All presto readers were installed in working condition but sometimes the glitch out and becomes disable. I was on a bus there other day were the driver inform me it was working on his bus but in fact it was working and accepted my fare. It appears that the readers on that bus wasn't working sometime before I got on. Now this brings to the question how can TTC switch to presto if these readers keep glitching. If it can't acquire a location, both (or all 3 on an artic) readers are disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttcbusdude Posted July 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 8425 functional on 35. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 +1357 (my bad, mixed it with another number) 1357 took the bus a full 10 minutes for the front reader to initialize after being shut off. The back reader only took a minute to initialize. This no idling procedure is going to cause a lot of trouble with presto. Queensway division buses idles all the time so this problem simple doesn't occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16 McCowan Posted July 23, 2016 Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 #1685, #7313, #7344, #7914, #7915, #7958 and #7969 have the PRESTO readers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98 Willowdale-Senlac Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 9016-9017 and 9052 another 90xx could be 9010 have PRESTO readers on. Also they have it on all three doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andythagiant Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 Just now, 98 Willowdale-Senlac said: 9016-9017 and 9052 another 90xx could be 9010 have PRESTO readers on. Also they have it on all three doors. Also 9044 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttcbusdude Posted July 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 well it is about time that the artics have the presto readers I will have to check and keep my eyes out for more that have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 All the 40 ft buses at Arrow and Wilson are done. They just have to finish up the artics and move on to the next divisions. About 700 buses have readers now. They better be working hard on weekends when the artics aren't needed for service. (less artics needed for Wilson) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viva5113 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 add 8475 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 +8568 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptorjays Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 On 7/25/2016 at 1:22 AM, Xtrazsteve said: All the 40 ft buses at Arrow and Wilson are done. They just have to finish up the artics and move on to the next divisions. About 700 buses have readers now. They better be working hard on weekends when the artics aren't needed for service. (less artics needed for Wilson) Do you think they will be able to install the readers in all vehicles by the end of the year? How bout subways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98 Willowdale-Senlac Posted July 30, 2016 Report Share Posted July 30, 2016 9020 has presto readers on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 On 7/27/2016 at 1:56 PM, raptorjays said: Do you think they will be able to install the readers in all vehicles by the end of the year? How bout subways? Buses, yes they are still in track. Almost all Arrow and Wilson buses should be done now. Next up is two months for MtD and Malvern. That leaves October and November for Eglinton and Bmount. MtD already has a handful of hybrids with readers for the 512. Subway installation hasn't been going according to plans. They took out many gates now but seems like the new gates haven't been arriving on time. St Clair got its gates in July, a whole month late. I highly doubt they can finish the entire BD line by the fall. Then they got the remaining line 1, 3 and 4. Then the existing old readers need to be replaced. The faregate replacement program is going to run well into 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfitz Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 4 minutes ago, Xtrazsteve said: Then the existing old readers need to be replaced. The faregate replacement program is going to run well into 2017. It was always the plan that the existing old readers wouldn't be replaced until 2017. And the secondary entrances at stations with the existing readers. If they can catch up and get readers in every station by end of 2016, then they've done very well, and achieved their promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 13 minutes ago, nfitz said: It was always the plan that the existing old readers wouldn't be replaced until 2017. And the secondary entrances at stations with the existing readers. If they can catch up and get readers in every station by end of 2016, then they've done very well, and achieved their promise. I know they plan to replace the existing ones sometime in mid 2017. Considering they are replacing gates well into 2017, some station might not even get presto by the end of 2016. TTC is now considering to sell tokens well into 2017. This could pretty much mean the system won't convert to presto by the end of 2016. Also note presto usage on buses are extremely low. I'm the only one to uses it on a bus out of 50 people all the time. The TTC will need to give people more time to adopt so there's no rush in installing gates at every station by 2016. The low usage stations on the SRT can wait. TTC also needs to step up on presto card sales which they haven't done yet. They have plenty of opportunities to educate people like putting up large posters, use the TR screens and printing on newspaper on how to use presto. Have staffs do in station sales and at ticket booths/vending machines. Have staffs on buses educating and selling presto cards. TTC is doing nothing right now which leads to a very low adoption rate on buses. People just see a brand new reader on buses and are completely clueless on how presto works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transitfan100 Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 I was on bus 1829 on Thursday, it had functioning presto readers, add that one to the list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Presto installers started at malvern Tuesday night. It would appear that the 1000s will be done first. i can vouch that 1068 is done, at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 +1360, 9000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buurin Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 On 8/3/2016 at 1:26 AM, Xtrazsteve said: I know they plan to replace the existing ones sometime in mid 2017. Considering they are replacing gates well into 2017, some station might not even get presto by the end of 2016. TTC is now considering to sell tokens well into 2017. This could pretty much mean the system won't convert to presto by the end of 2016. Also note presto usage on buses are extremely low. I'm the only one to uses it on a bus out of 50 people all the time. The TTC will need to give people more time to adopt so there's no rush in installing gates at every station by 2016. The low usage stations on the SRT can wait. TTC also needs to step up on presto card sales which they haven't done yet. They have plenty of opportunities to educate people like putting up large posters, use the TR screens and printing on newspaper on how to use presto. Have staffs do in station sales and at ticket booths/vending machines. Have staffs on buses educating and selling presto cards. TTC is doing nothing right now which leads to a very low adoption rate on buses. People just see a brand new reader on buses and are completely clueless on how presto works. And this won't help either... The reader on 8372 crashed. And this is no isolated incident; I've seen these readers crash at least twice before. Now I know it runs a .NET app on a Windows CE device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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