page_title: Toronto Transit Commission
section_title: Fares
hierarchical_section_title: Toronto Transit Commission / Services / Fares
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Vorder- und Rückseite eines Token der Toronto Transit Commission. English: Obverse and reverse sides of single-ride token for the Toronto Transit Commission. This design of token replaced older ones and was introduced in November 2006.
context_page_description: The Toronto Transit Commission is the public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the oldest and largest of the urban transit service providers in the Greater Toronto Area, with numerous connections to systems serving its surrounding municipalities.
  Established as the Toronto Transportation Commission in 1921, the TTC owns and operates four rapid transit lines with 75 stations, over 149 bus routes, and 11 streetcar lines. On an average weekday in 2019, 1.69 million passengers made 2.76 million unlinked trips on the TTC, with the number of trips about evenly divided between the subways and buses and streetcars. The TTC also operates door-to-door paratransit service for the elderly and disabled, known as Wheel-Trans.
  The TTC is the most heavily used urban mass transit system in Canada and the third largest in North America, after the New York City Transit Authority and Mexico City Metro.
context_section_description: Since March 1, 2015, children 12 and under have been able to ride the TTC for free. The TTC accepts cash, concession tickets (for youths ages 13 to 19 and seniors 65 or older), tokens, Presto cards, Presto tickets and legacy physical day passes. As of January 1, 2019, TTC monthly passes and the 12-month pass are only available on Presto, following the phase-out of the TTC's own monthly Metropass and the Metropass discount plan (MDP). Since January 3, 2016, the adult cash fare has been $3.25 for a single trip. Since March 1, 2020, the cost of adult single fares using a Presto card has been $3.20. The Fair Pass program allows those eligible for the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) or Ontario Works to receive a discount when using a Presto card.
  The Presto card is an electronic unified contactless smart card-based fare payment system, owned and managed by Metrolinx, for transit service providers throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) and Ottawa. The TTC also provides limited-use paper Presto tickets, mainly for occasional riders, which come in 1-ride, 2-ride and day pass varieties. Users tap their Presto card or ticket on a Presto reader as they enter a TTC station or vehicle. Either their fare is automatically paid through stored value, or a pass or two-hour transfer is validated. Their card or ticket then acts as proof-of-payment (POP) to present to TTC staff such as fare inspectors, who carry hand-held devices to verify Presto fare payments, upon request. As of June 2018, Presto readers are available at the entrances of all subway stations and on all buses and streetcars.
  The Presto card can be used to pay the full-double fare required on the TTC's five downtown express routes as well as on all cross-boundary TTC bus routes which run into and from the city of Mississauga (operating on behalf of MiWay) and York Region (operating on behalf of York Region Transit).
  Unlike the Presto card, the Presto ticket can only be used on TTC services (subway and surface vehicles within the City of Toronto). They are not reloadable and cannot be used on any other transit service providers that use Presto, including the TTC's cross-boundary buses that operate within the City of Mississauga or York Region.
caption: Obverse and reverse of Toronto Transit Commission single-ride token
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