Under the terms of a deal the TTC inked with Metrolinx in 2012, the Toronto agency pays a commission of 4.65 per cent. The municipalities currently pay a commission of 2 per cent, which Metrolinx uses to pay the operating costs of the fare card regime. For the past year 905 municipalities have been in negotiations with Metrolinx over a new operating agreement for Presto, the provincially owned fare card system used by transit systems across the region. But Anne Marie Aikins said 905 transit agencies have been using Presto for longer than the TTC, and have so far been paying a smaller commission than Toronto. Last year Toronto’s transit system carried 538 millionpassengers.

Source: thestar March 14, 2017 23:15 UTC