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Originally Posted by AR_Six
No - they sell 1, 2 and 3 zone monthly passes as well. Costs in Van for fares are 2.50 for one zone, 3.75 for two and 4.50 IIRC for three. So if you have a one-zone monthly pass and need to go two zones on the bus, you have to pay an additional $1.25 for that trip. However, after 6:30pm weekdays, and all day weekends and holidays, the zones go away (i.e. the entire translink system is considered to be one zone and costs 2.50 for wherever you're going).
I don't get why the unicity model vs. multiple municipalities should mean this isn't a feasible way of structuring fares.
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Might have to do with laws. For example Airdrie have their own mayor and council right? So it would be weird to have different payzones within Calgary for people who essentially paid the same taxes for the C-Train... if the C-Train went to Airdrie then those people would have to pay more to ride it because they didn't pay for it in the first place.
If this were an American city, people in Airdrie would have to pay a toll to enter Calgary.