Transit Windsor cash fare discounts axed

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Transit Windsor will introduce a new tariff structure this summer.

Everyone pays the same rate cash go transit Windsor bus, and introduces new fare boxes, said Tony Houad, Director at the bus company.

Seniors and students will no longer receive a discount on bus fares, if they pay cash - paying any $2.50, and is a one-way tunnel bus price to $4.

But General Manager Penny Williams points out there are some new options that will benefit riders, including day and family passes. And transfers allow people on and off the bus with a rate for up to two hours.

"As long as you are within this two hour parameter you will be receive bus for all," said Williams. "There are ways that you can still discounts." "It's just that a cash fare will be implemented, and we are still the more frequent drivers rewarding."

5 Tunnel buses will start testing the new fare boxes. Once the bugs are worked out, the entire fleet will be equipped by more than 100 buses in over the summer.

"We wanted to ensure that we not too quickly jump the gun." We want to make sure that this fare boxes work to our specifications, "said Houad."

The new fare boxes are smart cards, use so that driver download currency on their cards, or your balance to check if they get on the bus. The 3 million US dollar investment was a long time in the making, he said.

Officials believe that the new structure riding will make more attractive the bus. A report in the transit Windsor Board of Directors declared that "other communities increases experienced passenger numbers, if it initiatives such as the day passes, family passes and open window implements transfers."

$75,000 Over the marketing of the new fare boxes and changes to the tariff structure spend transit Windsor.

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