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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 lirr42 on Sat Apr 7 21:18:15 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by AlM on Sat Apr 7 18:10:48 2018. Needless to say any service increases would require considerable efficiencies so adding more service doesn't mean losing even more money than they do now...Just one example: the LIRR alone spends over $250 million on conductors, assistant conductors, and collectors each year. If the LIRR were to move to a proof of payment system and eliminate conductors (like railroads did across Europe in the 1990's) it would more than offset any loss from reducing fares to express-bus levels (which I put at $61.205 million per year at the current ridership levels) and drastically reduce the marginal cost of adding new service. This is not uncharted territory...taking infrequent, expensive, commuter-focused and fragmented rail systems and unifying them into a cohesive, modern regional rail system that has frequent service, reasonable fares, and resembles rapid transit in the city was done in many cities elsewhere over the course of the last few decades. The MTA should be moving full steam ahead towards a modernized system like this...instead they're shilling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to study something Paris figured out 30 years ago! |
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