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Posted by David of Broadway on Thu Oct 19 20:33:46 2006, in response to Re: Brooklyn subway needs, posted by MATHA531 on Thu Oct 19 20:06:45 2006. Why should someone who takes a very short trip pay just as much as someone who takes a very long trip?Imagine how low the fare would be if all trips were a few stops on the local. Imagine how high the fare would be if all trips were a bus ride followed by a long ride on the express. I haven't done a complete survey (although I'm working on it), but I believe that the vast majority of major transit systems around the world have fares, at least on their heavy rail systems, that in some way vary by distance. The primary exceptions seem to be the old North American systems (in, e.g., New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago), where the flat fare was implemented simply to facilitate fare collection and persists, for political reasons, even with fare payment technologies that would make variable fares much easier to implement. |
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