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Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR

Posted by lirr42 on Sat Apr 7 15:55:40 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Apr 6 15:12:00 2018.

The problem is two-fold: both fares and service levels.

If fares are lowered and service stays the same, then the trains will become overcrowded and unusable, particularly for those going to and from LI or the rest of the Hudson Valley. Fares not only need to be lowered, but service needs to be drastically increased across the entire system to support the additional ridership. If both are done then it would do a great deal to improve mobility across the region.

As far as what the fares should be set at, there should be some sort of differentiation between local buses/subways and rail, so setting the fares at $2.75 within the city isn't the best idea. Further, rail fares aren't just too expensive in the city, it's a problem across the whole region as well...they're not just unaffordable in Queens and the Bronx, they are just as bad on Long Island, in Westchester, etc.

The best thing to do would be to reduce fares to express bus-levels (i.e. the maximum fare between any two stations in NYC is equal to the cost of an express bus fare now) and extend those out to Long Island and the Hudson Valley as well, along these lines: http://library1.thelirrtoday.com/b/s!Alzm51r4FWdWh7Z4czlH4eV3jqeCJA

Then drastically improve service so the railroads become integral parts of the region's transportation system and not just high-cost, high-waste systems that only effectively serve a very tiny portion of the region's population...

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