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Posted by Sand Box John on Mon Sep 26 08:42:08 2011, in response to Re: Those new BART cars, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon Sep 26 00:24:41 2011. BART and WMATA are also similar in charging by distance, failing to run overnight, and the choice of cushy seats/carpeting all hallmarks of shouting "we aren't a subway like NY". BART has wised up--carpet is being phased out.Not operating 24 service is irrelevant as the vast majority of the rail transit properties in north America don't. The image these two agencies used to promote themselves has no relevance to the passenger demographics served. Sure both use distance based fares, they both do because the technology to collect them automatically became available around the time these systems were built. What surprises me is that other agencies have not gone to distance based fare structures. As to distances, indeed WMATA has nearly the same route mileage as BART but far better laid out as reflected in double average daily ridership. Bart has one trunk route with multiple branches radiating from it, WMATA has four, three which also have branches radiating from them. WMATA serves the urban core along three different routes, bart serves their urban cores along a single route. The difference between boardings generated has more to do with lack of coverage in their urban cores, the geography of the region and the demographics of passenger served. Bart is a commuter railroad with a small amount of urban rapid transit on the side. WMATA is an urban rapid transit system with truncated commuter rail reach. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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