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Posted by WillD on Fri Aug 17 12:18:12 2012, in response to Re: LIRR Fare Ripoff Hoax..., posted by Train Dude on Fri Aug 17 02:14:49 2012. You were responding to Elias' response to Aaron, so you must in some way be addressing Aaron's post. It's not Elias' fault that he's unfamiliar with the economics of barrier fare collection, but I would have hoped you'd have picked something up along the way. You're looking at a cost per station of between $750,000 and $1,125,000, and then you end up paying a technician who can only cover a dozen or so stations for eight hours a day. The LIRR would be looking at hundreds of millions of dollars to install the gates and millions of dollars a year to maintain them. It should be readily apparent to anyone that it will never be worthwhile to install faregates in locations as marginal as most commuter rail stations. It could work, poorly, if Elias had suggested putting the faregates at the NYC end of the system, but he didn't and instead proposed to spend the maximum amount of money for the least benefit without addressing Aaron's problem. And you were foolish enough to claim it was a good idea.But then you already knew all this. You only resort to ad hominems when you know you're wrong and can't bring yourself to admit it. That's also why we see you resort to ad hominem attacks all the time. |
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