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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Thu Oct 2 16:35:07 2014, in response to Re: The Need for Better Bus Service, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Thu Oct 2 14:09:24 2014. And those are programmed in I believe.I agree that if I choose to, say, travel north via the B63 and return south via the B37 or the subway, I am not doing anything wrong. It is not my fault that the turnstiles / fare boxes fail to charge another fare. It's technically not a round-trip, even if I find that my destination leaves me ever so close to my origin. It's not my problem that there are multiple stops/stations available to me and it is possible for me to connect to them while transferring at a stop far away, and it's also not my problem if I derive benefits from that. That being said, it only makes all the more sense that fares be time-based (105 minutes sounds about right, with 120 minutes at night) rather than transfer-based. If they can do what they've already done with the MetroCard, it can't be that hard to program this. What I did once see prohibited in writing and is definitely against the law (though I've never seen enforced) is sharing an Unlimited card in the midst of a ride (i.e. person 1 enters subway with card and hands back to person 2 to use elsewhere before person 1 has finished his trip). This is often done when Person 1 will have no need of the card after the point of "pass-back" either because of the card's expiration or no further transfers or whatever. But legally, sharing is only allowed after the initial user has finished a trip, not while still in the system. |
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