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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 Mon Apr 9 07:34:22 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by randyo on Sun Apr 8 23:05:37 2018. PoP is very different from individual fare collection...instead of having between 2 and 6 or more people onboard a train to collect fares, like the LIRR and Metro-North do now, passengers would be responsible for validating their own fares prior to boarding, then would only have to prove they have paid upon the request of a fare inspector.Then you need to have only one fare inspector ride the train randomly inspecting tickets. If you have a valid ticket for your trip, then you're fine. If you don't, you either have to pay a penalty fare (which is several times the regular one-way fare you would get at the ticket machine) directly to the fare inspector, you would have to agree to pay an invoice for the penalty fare, or would receive a summons for failing to have a valid ticket. The cost savings from not having multiple people on each and every train to collect tickets would be on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, making a lot more money available to improve service and undertake other capital projects. PoP also dramatically reduces the marginal cost of adding more service (since all you need to add is an engineperson, not a full train crew of 3 or more people), making our dollars go much further when it comes to adding service. |
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