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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 Jackson Park B Train on Mon Apr 9 13:41:08 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by Broadway Lion on Mon Apr 9 10:19:25 2018. Fifty years ago when the Illinois Central was looking to streamline their Electric Suburban service, they were a bleeding edge adopter of an electronic faregate/ticket system. At the time the PR materials claimed that LIRR was installing the same system. If memory serves the vendor was some piece of Litton (the steotype conglomerate built on DOD profits). Clearly that didn't happen (or last?) at LIRR--perhaps a bit of anti-automation lobbying by workers?IC had terrible reliability problems at first, but the system stabilized and was functional until METRA took over and scrapped it, regressing to the same old, same old paper ticket punched by conductors as was the case on other parts of their operations. As Caltrain shows daily, tag on, tag off, with random POP checks works. |
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