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Re: CitiTicket ridership (Flushing to Little Neck) vs Q12/Q13 weekend ridership |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Feb 12 04:47:34 2019, in response to CitiTicket ridership (Flushing to Little Neck) vs Q12/Q13 weekend ridership, posted by BrooklynTrain on Mon Feb 11 22:59:58 2019. The heavy weekend use of the Q12/13 over the LIRR should not be surprising. History is littered with instances where cheap fares drove the more expensive mode out of business.The expansion of el and subway service into the Bronx wrecked local NYC and New Haven service there. The SIRT was doomed when the City took over the Staten Island buses in 1947. Fares were reduced from a dime to a nickel. This made the bus less expensive than the SIRT. The SIRT went bankrupt within 5 years. It's survived on artificial respiration ever since. Most of Queens was served by the LIRR, until the subway came with the Dual Contracts. The BRT's Liberty and Jamaica extensions wrecked the LIRR's Atlantic Ave service. The IRT's extension to Corona and Flushing wrecked the Whitestone Branch. Later, the IND finished off Main Line service. The subway's appeal wasn't faster service. It was less expensive service. There's even an economic law that describes this phenomenon: Gresham's Law. |
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