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Re: Intermediate Station Fare Payment on SIRT (was:Re: Scrap pecking order with R44-SI) |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Sun Sep 3 11:15:16 2006, in response to Re: Intermediate Station Fare Payment on SIRT (was:Re: Scrap pecking order with R44-SI), posted by tydev417 on Sun Sep 3 10:38:14 2006. The rest of the city gets a single bus-bus or bus-subway or subway-bus transfer (and most passengers don't even use it) for that $2 fare; Staten Island gets a bus-train-boat-subway transfer for that same $2 fare.The MTA isn't losing money on SIR? What in good heavens are you smoking? The decision to eliminate fares to/from stops other than St. George was justified by the claim (I don't know if it's accurate or not) that the cost of installing and maintaining fare control equipment would exceed the revenue that it would bring in (in other words, that SIR would be even more of a money-loser with the fare control equipment than without). A similar justification was made for eliminating the ferry fare. An assumption of the above transfer policy was implicit. POP, which has much lower fare control equipment requirements, changes everything. I don't think POP was considered in the initial analysis. |
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