The TTC made tokens more complex (i.e., two toned), but it looks like ongoing war with the token counterfeiters has escalated. The ball’s in the TTC court now, when are we going to get smartcards & micropayments (and I don’t mean Presto?
The stat that pops out at me in the CBC article is this:
On average, 2,000 fake tokens are used on the TTC every day, he said.
That’s a lot of tokens and riders, you could easily be sitting next to one. The worst part is that they may have only saved 50¢
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