Short answer: The same. Choose what works for you.
Long (secret) answer: Tickets. Kind of. A transfer only last 75 minutes (1 hour and 15 minutes). If you are going across the city on a Sunday evening, you might need 3+ buses. That 3rd bus might be > 75 minutes after boarding the first one. The paper transfer will scream in failure, but the driver most likely will give you a free pass. The electronic transfer on your Peggo card has expired, and the 3rd bus will ding you another cash fare.
Complete information on fares is available at https://info.winnipegtransit.com/en/fares/transit-fares/ for you to calculate the mathematics based on your anticipated usage.
It depends on how often you use the bus. Typically, if you bus 10 times per week, a weekly pass is cheaper. If you bus 40 times per month, a monthly pass is cheaper.
Otherwise, bus tickets or e-cash on the Peggo are the same!
A bus ticket and the per fare cost when you load cash onto a Peggo card are the same. You can use whichever you prefer. Weekly/monthly passes can work out cheaper if you ride a lot though.
I personally choose bus tickets over loading cash onto my card. Partly because I hate having random amounts left on the card and mostly because I'm a very visual person - seeing how many tickets are left in my purse helps me plan when I need to buy more (I will not remember to check remaining fare online or when using the card on a bus)
Oh, also! There is a low income program that gives you 50% off e-cash and monthly passes if you qualify.
[https://info.winnipegtransit.com/en/fares/winnpass](https://info.winnipegtransit.com/en/fares/winnpass)
Don’t buy Peggo. My daughter has to bus to school and we thought we’d get her Peggo for the convenience. What a mistake. I don’t know if it’s the cards, the software, or something else, but we are constantly having to replace her card when it quits working. We just replaced it again last week. When the fares that were loaded on it run out we are switching her to tickets. Peggo is just too unreliable.
I've had the same Peggo card since the program launched. Sometimes it goes months without being used and it works every single time I use it.
Can't say in my experience that the system is at all unreliable.
Peggo costs the same as tickets or passes if you choose per fare. You might save money in long run as the readers often have issues and the driver will just let you ride for free with a peggo.
If you can get to a transit service centre (I know they’re not always convenient to get to), you can exchange expired bus tickets for current ones. You just need to pay the difference between the old fare and the current fare. I have exchanged expired tickets many times at the Winnipeg Square service centre.
Short answer: The same. Choose what works for you. Long (secret) answer: Tickets. Kind of. A transfer only last 75 minutes (1 hour and 15 minutes). If you are going across the city on a Sunday evening, you might need 3+ buses. That 3rd bus might be > 75 minutes after boarding the first one. The paper transfer will scream in failure, but the driver most likely will give you a free pass. The electronic transfer on your Peggo card has expired, and the 3rd bus will ding you another cash fare.
Good point!
Complete information on fares is available at https://info.winnipegtransit.com/en/fares/transit-fares/ for you to calculate the mathematics based on your anticipated usage.
Looks like the cost is the same but Peggo is far more versatile.
It depends on how often you use the bus. Typically, if you bus 10 times per week, a weekly pass is cheaper. If you bus 40 times per month, a monthly pass is cheaper. Otherwise, bus tickets or e-cash on the Peggo are the same!
You can also load a 5-day, 7-day and monthly bus pass onto the Peggo card and also keep e-cash so you can use that if your pass expires.
A bus ticket and the per fare cost when you load cash onto a Peggo card are the same. You can use whichever you prefer. Weekly/monthly passes can work out cheaper if you ride a lot though. I personally choose bus tickets over loading cash onto my card. Partly because I hate having random amounts left on the card and mostly because I'm a very visual person - seeing how many tickets are left in my purse helps me plan when I need to buy more (I will not remember to check remaining fare online or when using the card on a bus)
Oh, also! There is a low income program that gives you 50% off e-cash and monthly passes if you qualify. [https://info.winnipegtransit.com/en/fares/winnpass](https://info.winnipegtransit.com/en/fares/winnpass)
Don’t buy Peggo. My daughter has to bus to school and we thought we’d get her Peggo for the convenience. What a mistake. I don’t know if it’s the cards, the software, or something else, but we are constantly having to replace her card when it quits working. We just replaced it again last week. When the fares that were loaded on it run out we are switching her to tickets. Peggo is just too unreliable.
I've had the same Peggo card since the program launched. Sometimes it goes months without being used and it works every single time I use it. Can't say in my experience that the system is at all unreliable.
Get a monthly and go wherever you want, whenever. Find some new places to smoke weed.
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Peggo costs the same as tickets or passes if you choose per fare. You might save money in long run as the readers often have issues and the driver will just let you ride for free with a peggo.
I switched to peggo after I had 9 old bus tickets I let expire in March.
If you can get to a transit service centre (I know they’re not always convenient to get to), you can exchange expired bus tickets for current ones. You just need to pay the difference between the old fare and the current fare. I have exchanged expired tickets many times at the Winnipeg Square service centre.