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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 Mon Apr 9 18:17:36 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by lirr42 on Mon Apr 9 07:43:42 2018. For that trick to work you would have to know exactly where and when the inspector would come, so that's a non-issue as most rail passengers are unable to predict the future. If you buy a cheap Hicksville to Farmingdale ticket, you would only get off if the inspector comes between Hicksville and Farmingdale. If the inspector comes at Mineola, you would be subject to the full penalty fare.Except that LIRR tickets don't specify origin and destination; though specific stations are printed on the ticket, the ticket itself is valid for any journey within the zones specified. A two-zone intermediate ticket is always $3.25, so a ticket that says "Mineola to Farmingdale" is also valid from Farmingdale to Deer Park, and from Deer Park to Ronkonkoma, and from Ronkonkoma to Yaphank, and from Yaphank to Greenport. If I bought that ticket, I could ride from Mineola to Greenport and no fare inspector could confirm that I was taking a $17.25 journey on a $3.25 ticket. If I were boarding at Penn Station, I could get caught with an invalid ticket between Penn and Mineola, but even then I could simply buy a peak ticket to Mineola and a separate two-zone intermediate and make the journey to Greenport for $15.25 instead of the $29.25 I'm supposed to pay. |
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