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Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR |
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Posted by Nilet on Fri Apr 6 06:40:26 2018, in response to $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by heypaul on Fri Apr 6 06:15:04 2018. The department has tapped engineering firm AECOM to look at potential changes that would boost ridership on Long Island Rail Road and Metro North lines running within the five boroughs.Reducing fares within city limits, for example, would entice more residents to use commuter rails... No schitt, Sherlock. The commuter fares are specifically set high to discourage intracity travel. Bronx to Grand Central is $9.25 peak. Queens to Penn Station is $10.25 peak— because they don't want dirty city commuters on the suburbanites' trains. So if you decided that you now want to encourage city commuters to take LIRR/MNRR, the obvious step is to eliminate the penalty fares designed to discourage exactly that. |
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