{"id":21337,"date":"2018-11-23T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=21337"},"modified":"2018-11-23T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:27:29","slug":"ttc-to-start-selling-last-batch-of-monthly-metropasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/ttc-to-start-selling-last-batch-of-monthly-metropasses\/","title":{"rendered":"TTC to start selling last batch of monthly Metropasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Transit Commission will start selling its last batch of monthly Metropasses today, as the agency continues to make the transition to a pay system centred on renewable Presto cards.<\/p>\n<p>TTC Metropasses for December go on sale today and will be available until Dec. 5. After that, monthly passes will only be available through Presto.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release Thursday, the TTC says the Metropass has been a &#8220;mainstay of TTC fare payment for nearly 40 years and a regular fixture in the lives and wallets of nearly 300,000 Torontonians every month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 78 million of the monthly passes have been sold since they were introduced in 1980 for a cost of $26.<\/p>\n<p>The price has gone up since then, to $146.25 for adults and $116.75 for seniors and students.<\/p>\n<p>The TTC says tickets and tokens will be discontinued by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Transit Commission will start selling its last batch of monthly Metropasses today, as the agency continues to make the transition to a pay system centred on renewable Presto &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3538],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-6-13.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}