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Posted by nh153 on Sun Aug 31 09:41:31 2014, in response to Re: 45 Years Ago - Exact Bus Fare, posted by JohnnyMints on Sun Aug 31 00:18:24 2014. I think that has more to do with NJ Transit's zones and more expensive fares the farther you are from NY City. Most of the NJ Transit buses that stay within New Jersey are exact fare.But if you're going to NYC, the fare is at least $3.20 (except at the GW Bridge bus stop, which has a special $1.70 fare). Then there are additional zones that raise the base fare. Additionally, you can also buy a round trip ticket, which doubles your fare. So these buses have "full service" with drivers making change. I happened to take a 182 the other day and someone had taped up the fare box with cardboard so we wouldn't drop exact fare in the box. I suppose that vehicle was mostly used on exact fare routes but was switched to a NYC route. So the 182, Paramus to GW Bridge Terminal, is a full service route with four different fares (two zones in NJ, a special fare at the GW Bridge bus stop in Fort Lee and a terminal in Manhattan). For transit systems like NYC that have one fare regardless of distance traveled, the exact fare policy makes sense. I wonder, before Metro Card, did NYC drivers on express routes make change, even after 1969? Was it the introduction of Metro Card that turned express buses in NYC into exact fare routes? |
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