{"id":13582,"date":"2018-01-31T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/hsr-to-be-85-presto-tap-by-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:42:50","slug":"hsr-to-be-85-presto-tap-by-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/hsr-to-be-85-presto-tap-by-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"HSR to be 85% PRESTO tap by 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was mentioned last year that paper tickets for the HSR would be phased out in the near future but that date just got a lot closer.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the city committed themselves to the goal of having 85% of HSR riders use PRESTO cards over paper tickets under a new deal with Metrolinx.<\/p>\n<p>For Hamilton,\u00a0paper tickets will still be issued for at least another year before the big push to switch over customers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Hamilton, however, as Metrolinx is pushing for all municipalities it operates within to adopt the same targets.<\/p>\n<p>The concern right now is that those with lower incomes such as seniors or the working poor may be affected the most as PRESTO card ownership is costlier than just a paper ticket, especially if you lose the card (existing riders know what I&#8217;m talking about here).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12090\" src=\"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hsr-bus-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under the new deal, Hamilton politicians also agreed to a 10 year contract with Metrolinx that will provide the city with an annual $11 million through provincial gas tax.<\/p>\n<p>We can only hope some of that money will go toward a smooth transition as we further enter into a paper-less world.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was mentioned last year that paper tickets for the HSR would be phased out in the near future but that date just got a lot closer. Last week, the city committed themselves to the goal of having 85%...","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":13585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/presto-card-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}