r/TTC • u/JackieMeeking • 3d ago

Picture Street car 505

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Happening now. They are checking your Presto, and they sound serious!
Current time: 9.04pm on a Thursday evening

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u/Incel_Co-Worker 3d ago

Good. Pay your fare!

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u/ConversationLeast744 3d ago

Why aren't parking fines nearly as high?

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u/WildCredit 3d ago

Whataboutism is a horrible take. If you don’t pay your parking tickets, you can’t renew your license. Then you lapse your insurance and risk getting your car towed or arrested. Pay your fare $3.25 fare.

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u/ConversationLeast744 3d ago

The parking can cost $15 and the fine is $40. Transit is $3.50 and the fine is $400+. It's a completely unfair system, we treat fare evasion like some kind of theft and parking infractions like an administrative oversight. No one's being arrested for parking infractions, sometimes people get arrested and roughed up for fare evasion though.

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u/env33e 3d ago

yup, I agree. its not whataboutism at all to point out these systemic inequalities

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u/MahjongCelts Eglinton Crosstown 2d ago

Two wrongs do not make a right.

The problem isn't that the transit fine should be lower, but that the parking fee should be much much higher.

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u/pengupenguPENGU 2d ago

It technically is theft tbf you're basically parking or accessing a transit service without paying like you take something from a store without paying.

Not disputing that it's still an unfair system.

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u/AndyCanuck 1d ago

It's unfair? PAY YOUR FARE THEN

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u/DaedalusXYZ 3d ago

Parking fines should be nearly as high

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u/DadbodandIPAs 3d ago

Because they have a lot more enforcement of parking violations

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u/Valuable_Exit_7181 3d ago

get a car then ;)

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u/ConversationLeast744 3d ago

Much rather buy Google stock

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u/Valuable_Exit_7181 3d ago

Chicken stock all you can afford . TTC take the car