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Presto card users will feel the biggest sting if proposed OC Transpo fare increases are approved.
The cost of a tap-and-pay regular fare is set to jump to $3 per trip in 2016, up from $2.84. That’s an increase of nearly six per cent. The corresponding express fare would rise 11 cents to $4.39 per ride.
Cash fares could also climb by a dime for the third year in a row to $3.65 per ride, a 2.8 per cent increase.
But the cost of monthly community passes, held by passengers who receive Ontario Disability Support payments, will be frozen at $41.75.
Transit commission chairman Stephen Blais said he’s bringing forward the proposal, in consultation with Mayor Jim Watson, to help “our most vulnerable residents.”
OC Transpo was proposing to raise fares by an average of 2.5 per cent next year, but wouldn’t say previously exactly how much that would cost individual riders. That left some councillors frustrated.
But Blais says he wanted to provide residents and OC Transpo riders with predictability for 2016, so he worked with transit officials to build a fare table as part of the 2016 budget process.
“I didn’t want this to be a surprise to anyone,” he said in an interview.
The construction of the Confederation LRT line is fuelling a massive transformation of public transit in Ottawa, Blais says. When the line opens in 2018, the system will need to be redesigned to “reflect the new realities of terminal stations along the old Transitway at Blair, Hurdman and Tunney’s Pasture.”
Buses from the east, west, south and southwest will no longer travel directly into the core of the city, so that means local routes will also need a rethink. OC Transpo is currently working on a detailed report on future fare policy, which will be ready sometime next year.
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The transit commission will vote on the proposal at its meeting next week, followed by council on Dec. 9.
The proposed fare increases would take effect on July 1, 2016.
Regular adult monthly passes will rise to $105.75, an increase of $2.50, while regular adult monthly express passes will jump to $130.50, from $127.25.
Regular monthly passes for students would increase by $2, to $84.25, while the senior pass would increase a buck to $42.75.
OC Transpo will not offer any new bus service next year, but hopes to trim $4.6 million by slashing discretionary spending, making do with fewer staff, and cancelling the first and last trips on routes with few riders.
Cutting those 63 early morning or late-night trips — some of which reportedly have no passengers —could save $500,000. But some concerned councillors and transit commissioners say those runs are often taken by people who have no other option for getting to work.
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The cost of a tap-and-pay regular fare is set to jump to $3 per trip in 2016, up from $2.84. That’s an increase of nearly six per cent. The corresponding express fare would rise 11 cents to $4.39 per ride.
Cash fares could also climb by a dime for the third year in a row to $3.65 per ride, a 2.8 per cent increase.
But the cost of monthly community passes, held by passengers who receive Ontario Disability Support payments, will be frozen at $41.75.
Transit commission chairman Stephen Blais said he’s bringing forward the proposal, in consultation with Mayor Jim Watson, to help “our most vulnerable residents.”
OC Transpo was proposing to raise fares by an average of 2.5 per cent next year, but wouldn’t say previously exactly how much that would cost individual riders. That left some councillors frustrated.
But Blais says he wanted to provide residents and OC Transpo riders with predictability for 2016, so he worked with transit officials to build a fare table as part of the 2016 budget process.
“I didn’t want this to be a surprise to anyone,” he said in an interview.
The construction of the Confederation LRT line is fuelling a massive transformation of public transit in Ottawa, Blais says. When the line opens in 2018, the system will need to be redesigned to “reflect the new realities of terminal stations along the old Transitway at Blair, Hurdman and Tunney’s Pasture.”
Buses from the east, west, south and southwest will no longer travel directly into the core of the city, so that means local routes will also need a rethink. OC Transpo is currently working on a detailed report on future fare policy, which will be ready sometime next year.
Related
The transit commission will vote on the proposal at its meeting next week, followed by council on Dec. 9.
The proposed fare increases would take effect on July 1, 2016.
Regular adult monthly passes will rise to $105.75, an increase of $2.50, while regular adult monthly express passes will jump to $130.50, from $127.25.
Regular monthly passes for students would increase by $2, to $84.25, while the senior pass would increase a buck to $42.75.
OC Transpo will not offer any new bus service next year, but hopes to trim $4.6 million by slashing discretionary spending, making do with fewer staff, and cancelling the first and last trips on routes with few riders.
Cutting those 63 early morning or late-night trips — some of which reportedly have no passengers —could save $500,000. But some concerned councillors and transit commissioners say those runs are often taken by people who have no other option for getting to work.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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