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45 Years Ago - Exact Bus Fare |
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Posted by Andy on Sat Aug 30 21:20:38 2014 August 31, 1969, at 12:01 AM - also the Sunday morning of Labor Day Weekend - all NYC buses began requiring exact fares to be paid in coins or tokens. Drivers no longer carried money or made change. Fares were dropped into locked safes below the fare boxes. All NYCTA, MABSTOA, and private line buses adapted this program.The fare was 20 cents at the time. Many US cities, beginning with Washington DC in May 1968, had already required exact fares on buses before New York adapted it. The reason was that the $100 or so in coins that drivers carried made them literally sitting ducks for armed street criminals. Over 300 drivers had been robbed in 1969 alone up until Aug. 30. Thankfully no drivers were killed in New York, unlike some other cities where drivers died after being assaulted during robberies. |
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