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Originally Posted by Paladium
I understand the book of ticket thing but when i visited Calgary with my wife we couldn't buy two tickets at once in Washington for example you just tapped on th button two times and paid your 5 bucks.
In addition I was at the LRT and there was a group of 4 people (group) ahead of me and I don't know they were new to Calgary too and they were at both machines trying to buy tickets and were totally befuddled (train was also coming and of course I had to wait. I just think it is goofy that you can't buy 2, 3 4 tickets all at once while you are there as opposed to looking to buy tickets in Adv.
Unless you are buying a monthly pass I don't think there is any discount buying tickets in adv.
But again I am new I am probably wrong. I walk more often then take the LRT
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There used to be a small discount for buying booklets of tickets (like $2.40/ticket instead of $2.75). Now they're the same price. The only advantage is being able to validate them and not have to worry about bringing change.
Anywhere else I've been that has a train has a far more advanced system than Calgary does. The ability to use a credit/debit card to buy tickets has been around less than a year and you can't pay in cash.
It seems everywhere but Calgary has a system that allows you to buy multiple tickets at a time (like you've suggested), pay with cash, change, or debit/credit.