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Toronto Star
3 days ago
- Business
- Toronto Star
It's time to tap out of ‘legacy fares': Sunday is the last day to use TTC tokens, tickets and day passes
Time to gather all your leftover TTC tokens, tickets and day passes — Sunday is the last day you can use them to ride local transit. After decades of service, the 'legacy fares' will no longer be accepted on the TTC after June 1. TTC will then begin exclusively accepting commuters' fares with a physical or digital Presto card, Presto ticket, cash and debit or credit card — including those stored in an Apple or Google Wallet. The transition away from tokens, tickets and day passes comes after the TTC delayed the contentious change, extending the deadline to use the fares by five months — from Dec. 31 to June 1. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW 'Our customers bought this in good faith,' TTC chair Jamaal Myers said at a December board meeting. 'They paid money for it … I think it's only fair and reasonable just to give customers the opportunity to spend the tickets that they paid for.' Gta TTC tickets and tokens will soon be history. Here's what they can tell us about the city's past After 70 years, the transit agency is retiring tickets and the dime-sized slugs as payment for fare. Gta TTC tickets and tokens will soon be history. Here's what they can tell us about the city's past After 70 years, the transit agency is retiring tickets and the dime-sized slugs as payment for fare. The TTC stopped selling the older fares at subway stations in 2019, as the number of customers using them declined. Less than one per cent of riders pay using tokens and tickets, the transit agency said. 'It's clear that most riders have embraced Presto tap-and-ride,' Myers said in an October news release. Here's what you need to know about the change. How can I pay my fare? As a result of this change, the TTC is shifting to exclusively modern fare payments. Riders can still use cash to pay for their fares in station boxes, or on buses and streetcars. Those paying with cash must get a paper transfer from the bus operator or machines on a streetcar and in a subway station for proof of payment. Toronto transit riders can also tap their debit or credit card, including those in their mobile wallet, on a PRESTO reader on a TTC vehicle or a fare gate to pay for their rides. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Less than one per cent of riders pay using tokens and tickets, the transit agency said. Andrew Francis Wallace/ Toronto Star file photo Presto cards and tickets are another way to pay a fare, with cards costing $4.00 at TTC stations or all Shoppers Drug Mart and Loblaws locations. Digital Presto cards can be loaded onto a mobile wallet for free. Complimentary Presto cards are available at select Toronto Public Library branches while supplies last. The cards are set to automatically deduct an adult fare. However, youths, post-secondary students and seniors can set their cards to deduct a specific fare by going to a Shoppers Drug Mart location or TTC's customer service centre and providing government-issued photo identification. When was it decided that the TTC would stop accepting 'legacy fares'? In September, the TTC board endorsed the Fare Compliance Action Plan, tabled in July, which included the recommendation to phase out the use of its 'legacy fares' at the end of 2024. Gta TTC tickets, tokens and day passes get reprieve: Controversial phaseout delayed until June Many riders were surprised by the transit commission's announcement in October that it intended to discontinue the fares as of Jan. 1. Gta TTC tickets, tokens and day passes get reprieve: Controversial phaseout delayed until June Many riders were surprised by the transit commission's announcement in October that it intended to discontinue the fares as of Jan. 1. After customers brought forth compl aints about the abrupt change, the board voted to give customers a reprieve to use any remaining TTC tickets, tokens or day passes they may have, from Dec 31 to June 1. Following the TTC stopping its sales of the older fares at subway stations in 2019, the transit agency said, third-party retailers also stopped selling TTC tickets in July 2022 and TTC tokens in March 2023. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW In 2015, the transit agency first announced it would start phasing out tickets and tokens to make way for the Presto card. At the time, the TTC said sales would cease in 2016 and said they would no accept tickets and tokens as fare past mid-2017. Can I get a refund for my unused fares? No refunds, exchange or credit from any unused TTC tickets, tokens or day passes will be available after they are discontinued. Riders also won't be able to transfer the value of old fares to Presto cards, since the two are separate payment systems. With files from Patty Winsa
Business Standard
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Presto Launches Advanced Environmental Chamber 99.2% Accuracy for Climate Testing
VMPL Delhi NCR [India], May 20:Presto Stantest, a reliable name in material & quality test equipment, proudly announces its new launch of environmental chambers, designed to follow a wide range of climatic conditions for 99.2% accurate product test results. Presto Environmental Test Chamber has been specially designed for industries seeking reliability under extreme environments, and helps manufacturers evaluate how their products work under different temperatures, humidity levels and weather conditions - before they hit the market. "With this launch, we aim to set a new goal in environmental simulation. Our chamber gives unmatched control of temperature and humidity cycles, which helps companies to ensure that their products are flexible, safe and obedient with international standards," said Mr. Malhotra, Director, Presto Stantest Pvt. Ltd. Environmental Chambers with advanced insulation, accurate sensor and instant touch screen control are ideal for testing car parts, electronics, packaging materials, plastic and more. This latest launch supports a wide temperature range and stable humidity test - important to assess product stability, physical integrity and durability. Key Features include: * Extensive temperature and humidity limit (-40 ° C to +150 ° C / 20% to 98% RH) * Touch screen PLC-based control system * Fast heating and cooling cycle for quick test results * Strong, rust -resistant stainless-steel body * Alarm system for safety and monitoring (real time) This robust and highly reliable product is now available for orders throughout India as well as for international markets. With this new addition, Presto continues its mission to support manufacturers with cutting-edge tools that enhance product quality and reduce field failures.
The Herald Scotland
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
A composer whose remarkable works are very much his own
City Halls, Glasgow Keith Bruce four stars AYRSHIRE composer Jay Capperauld may be at the start of his career, but he is already as old as Mozart was when he died and rather older than Schubert, which put an interesting perspective on a concert which featured a world premiere alongside two youthful works from earlier times. Capperauld is currently producing a remarkable sequence of works for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as its Associate Composer, and Carmina Gadelica, a five-movement suite commissioned by the SCO with the support of the Vaughan Williams Foundation, was another demonstration of his range. Written for a wind dectet – pairs of clarinets, bassoons, horns, oboes and flutes (one crucially doubling on piccolo) – it achieves a wide palette of sonic colour over its 20 minutes, the players adding some foot-stomping to the mix at the start and sounding uncannily like the pipes playing a reel at the end. Read More Things to do in Scotland this month, from gigs to book festivals The new guide to Glasgow's musical heroes and trailblazers Drama and excitement as guest conductor takes up the baton at BBC SSO There are some obvious influences to Capperauld's approach – mentor Sir James MacMillan, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish among them – but the result is very much his own. The vernacular of unaccompanied Gaelic Psalm singing and the work rhythms of the Waulking Songs of the Western Isles have inspired others, but Capperauld finds a kinship with New York minimalism in the former and builds a fascinating complexity on the framework of the latter. In the lament of the fourth movement and dance of the finale he has also written some of his most approachable music and this piece is surely likely to find other eager champions. Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, a double concerto for violin and viola, must have challenged his Salzburg audience in 1779 because much of it – and especially the moving central slow movement – sounds of a century later. SCO leader Stephanie Gonley and principal viola Max Mandel were the soloists and co-directors for this performance, which brought out the operatic flavour of the work. If Mozart did not actually repurpose the music of the closing Presto in The Marriage of Figaro we are unmistakably listening to a rehearsal for that score. Schubert's Symphony No. 4 (not lumbered with its unfortunate 'Tragic' nickname in this programme) is often seen as a step back from its predecessor, too reliant on earlier models, but the SCO made it unfold with increasing fascination, the intensity of the low strings and bassoon in the Andante followed by sparky syncopated Scherzo and a finale that had a clarity in its impact larger orchestras struggle to match. Gonley's direction here was very light-touch, prompting an interesting question about what any conductor could have brought to the performance.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Veteran trader shares surprising 2025 outlook for 'digital gold'
Bitcoin's price target for 2025 remains $210,000, driven by institutional adoption and global liquidity expansion, Peter Chung doubled down on their earlier prediction in an interview with CNBC on Apr. 28. Chung is the research head at Presto, a Singapore-based quantitative trading firm established in 2024. Chung said that the recent market reaction to the macroeconomic conditions, in hindsight, was a healthy correction that paved the way for Bitcoin as a "mainstream asset." Comparing gold's bullish run against Bitcoin's comparatively modest price action in April so far, Chung proposed that Bitcoin has two faces: digital gold and risk-on asset. Most of the time, Bitcoin behaves like a risk-on asset because its value is derived from user adoption, similar to an internet company. But during times of crisis, Bitcoin behaves like gold, as its features are designed to imitate those of bullion like scarcity. However, these moments are rare, happening only when the market doubts the stability of the US dollar-dominated financial system — one recent example being the aftermath of President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcements. Trump refers to Apr. 2 as "Liberation Day," when he imposed tariff hikes globally before pausing them for all except China for 90 days on Apr. 9. As the traders flocked to gold due to its status as an asset to hedge during crisis, it hit the record high of $3,500 per ounce on Apr. 22. On the other hand, Bitcoin — often called "digital gold" — lags far behind gold. Though it has been able to exceed the Apr. 2 level of $87,000, it was still trading at $94,343.51 at press time, as per Kraken's price feed. Sign in to access your portfolio
Toronto Star
26-04-2025
- Toronto Star
Where 416 Snack Bar owner Adrian Ravinsky goes for stellar apple cake, Thai salads that are ‘absolute fire' and the lasagna that cheers him up
There is always more to explore here in the Toronto culinary scene. 416 Snack Bar owner Adrian Ravinsky sticks to the west end, mainly, given that he lives and works there, but once he's exhausted his usual spots, the world awaits. 'We can go to the east side, we can go to St. Clair, where I grew up, and we can go to any of the food-rich inner suburbs and end up finding something wicked,' he says. 'With an open mind and a Presto card, bike or willingness to sit in traffic, the options are endless.'
