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WEB VIDEO FOR SUBWAY RIDERS
The latest TTC web video instructs subway riders how to properly use the passenger assistance alarm (PAA). The yellow strip is found on all trains and is intended to quickly summon emergency services personnel to attend to someone in urgent need of aid. But as is pointed out in the five-minute Youtube clip, 70 per cent of the 6,000 PAA activations in 2012 were for nonemergencies and resulted in more than 50 hours in delays to commuters. The video is the latest in a series intended to educate ridership about TTC issues. To see the video, go to: www.youtube.com/embed/ sPrypYcw0mw SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS ◗PRESTO
Presto now allows transit users to load the equivalent of a monthly pass onto their prepay electronic fare cards. The passes are also automatically renewable and
����� ����� TO �� TRANSIT are one of several improvements to Presto announced by Metrolinx last week. Other new features include being able to add 10 cards to one user account and being able to pay the concession fares for children, students and seniors which was not possible before. For more information about the new features, visit www.prestocard.ca CHANGES COLOUR SCHEME ◗GO
Commuters may be forgiven if they do a double-take the next time they board a GO Transit vehicle. That’s because the regional transit agency has decided after nearly 50 years to revamp its traditional GO Green colour scheme. A photo was posted online last week of a GO train locomotive and passenger car at GO’s Willowbrook Yard maintenance facility in Mimico
sporting the new look, which now features two contrasting shades of green. The GO logo is also a darker green. GO spokesperson Anne Marie Aikens confirmed the colour change, which has already appeared on refurbished trains and buses. WI-FI SUBWAY ACCESS EXPANDS It will be some time yet before all TTC commuters can surf the internet while standing on a subway platform, but two stations at least will offer free Wi-Fi access by the end of the year. The TTC announced it is ready to proceed with a pilot Wi-Fi program at St. George and Bloor Station starting in December 2013. BAI Canada Inc, which is building a wireless network for 61 subway stations, has presented its installation and design plans for the project, which won’t be completed until the end of 2017.
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Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transit reporter. Follow him on Twitter@TOinTRANSIT
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