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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Fri Oct 3 10:10:21 2014, in response to Re: The Need for Better Bus Service, posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Oct 2 23:22:58 2014. Let me attempt to shed some light.Round trips are always permitted of course. Now MTA would obviously prefer that nobody make a round trip on a single fare (when using pay-per-ride). And MTA attempts to restrict this from happening by not acknowledging transfers between the routes that it currently lists as non-transferable. However, MTA still has never discouraged anyone from "landing" a block or two away from their origin after transferring at a distant location. If they had, we would have heard about it, either via the media or pamphlets, or something. But we've never heard anything about it. We've figured it out for ourselves and make use of it, but have never received any kind of press release or policy change or anything. That would be because, with the current programming, MTA would have to require a minimum distance from origin to destination in order to qualify for a ride. If I'm afraid of subways and I want to use buses to get from, say, 20th St and 5th Ave to 20th St and 3rd Ave and I don't want to walk and I don't want to pay a second fare, I very well can get on the B63 and go to a point (either Atlantic/3rd or Bay Ridge) and transfer to the B37. If I'm able to get something done while I'm at either Bay Ridge or Atlantic/3rd, that's not my fault. It's MTA's, for not prohibiting the maneuver, either operationally or legally. |
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