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Translink to set up gates and smart card system

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Gates, cards to replace SkyTrain honour system

Updated: Thu Apr. 09 2009 12:45:22

ctvbc.ca

There will be no more free rides for fare evaders on Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain system.

TransLink says it will be adding access gates at each station starting next year.

Transit users will have to swipe valid transit tickets in order to get into the station, or use a 'Smart Card' with a declining balance that works similar to a debit card. That card can be loaded up with money to pay fares.

The B.C. and federal governments, in conjunction with TransLink, will spend $100 million to install the gates and introduce the new cards.

Premier Gordon Campbell says the project will improve security on the transit system as well as cut down on fare evasions.

Right now, commuters can walk onto a train without showing that they have paid a fare. Transit police conduct random checks for tickets.

TransLink also says it is planning to double the capacity of the existing Expo Line by adding more cars into service and running longer trains. The addition will necessitate station upgrades, including longer platforms and bigger entrance areas to accommodate the increased amount of riders.

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...shColumbiaHome

About time! Now there won't be any fare evaders and translink can shut up about finding new sources of income.

ahaha, about 10 years too late

lol I bet you the bums and the teens will just jump over the gates. They need to make the gates 10ft tall and have spike on them so no one can climb over it.

Anxiously awaiting NDP response that it discriminates or offends some group... :rolleyes:

About time.... geez!

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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp (Post 6372589)

lol I bet you the bums and the teens will just jump over the gates. They need to make the gates 10ft tall and have spike on them so no one can climb over it.

NY style:
http://gothamist.com/attachments/Jen...03_mtagate.jpg

so what's gonna happen to the monthly pass or is it just gonna pay as you go kind of thing

probably going to have the whole fare system adjusted to a distance-based payment system? Since there are so many computer stuff involved now it can be done.

Actually what about buses? Do we get to use the same card? Will be pointless if we need separate cards for separate transit system.

100$ million to put this all in place, really!

in nyc... they have unlimited ride cards so one would assume this isn't a problem... and the card can be used system wide...

I think how you put your transfer into the little readers on the bus was done as a precurser to what will soon be a system with turnstyles...

sweet, it would mean that my translink employer will be doing a massive employee card replacement to get it working with these gates, since we ride free.

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Originally Posted by Carl Johnson (Post 6372614)

so what's gonna happen to the monthly pass or is it just gonna pay as you go kind of thing

??? umm they will still work.
the strip of the monthly card or day pass will jsut be encoded as such..

but in new york. once you swipe in you can't swipe in again.

Time to break out my magnetic strip/magnetic card reader. :D

so... will the upass finally be stuck on a single colour? haha

about time.......they finally realized that putting up gates is the only way they are going to crack down on fare evaders NY and places as such realized this when they first put it in.

hopefuly they put in the proper gates not just ones ppl can hop over otherwise its a waste of 100 mill

hopefully they will have a monthly pass for a price instead of paying per trip
if it gets charged by distance... going to school would be cheaper driving ahha

FINALLY.. i've been saying this shoudl've happened for 8 years now... yay we're catching up to 1995 technology!!!

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Originally Posted by Carl Johnson (Post 6372614)

so what's gonna happen to the monthly pass or is it just gonna pay as you go kind of thing

ya... will there still be the Upass??

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Originally Posted by orange7 (Post 6373136)

ya... will there still be the Upass??

probably replaced with a smart card

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Originally Posted by 3seriesBeeM (Post 6372748)

not all gates look like the picture above.. some are just turn styles that people can jump easilly

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Originally Posted by orange7 (Post 6373136)

ya... will there still be the Upass??

definitely. but it'll probably be one grand unified student pass =0

about fucking time, wow talk about back to the future.

BC u guys are great

:thumbsup: so fucking advanced