I am disabled, but not incapable of daily activities. I bought an $87 monthly city PRESTO pass from my $1,000 monthly disability cheques from the provincial and federal government but had the pass revoked after three weeks, ten or twelve miles from home because I allegedly used it in a neighbouring town. I visited the neighbouring town on a paper transfer, and paid cash to return, but was asked to pay for my pass use while out of town or forfeit my monthly pass with a week to run on it.
The operator was certain his computer was more honest than I.
The cardboard passes now offered are going to be discontinued, and the computer's records taken over your account of your activities. Moreover, the PRESTO card company is going to have a minute-by-minute record of your travel on transit which you may not examine or question. Sign the petition to keep the old passes as a check against Orwellian records of your whereabouts and against the arrogance of IT staff with PRESTO.