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Posted by WillD on Fri Aug 17 00:42:18 2012, in response to Re: LIRR Fare Ripoff Hoax..., posted by Broadway Lion on Thu Aug 16 07:57:47 2012. God no. That's about the WORST idea anyone has ever proposed for a fare collection system. I guess Boston's "pay double inbound, free outbound" experiment might technically be worse, but at least it *tried* to reduce cost by minimizing fare collection equipment. This proposal to equip every station with a fare gate and the technicians required to maintain them would present an onerous capital and annual expenditure the LIRR's already stretched budget would be hard pressed to supply.SEPTA is about to embark upon a fare collection system on the Regional Rail which rivals your proposal for insanity. It will be confusing, patently unfair to most riders, and very expensive to install and maintain. But again, at least by placing the fare gates at centrally located stations they've maximized the people using each gate and centralized their maintenance of those gates. And of course your proposal would spend a tremendous amount of money while not solving the problem outlined by Aaron. A fare collection system with fare gates and a zone fare will require an AddFare machine inside the gates, and the fare system can always be structured such that it overcharges on certain combinations of rides between various zones. |
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