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Re: Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon Oct 17 14:38:39 2016, in response to Re: Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon Oct 17 14:27:14 2016. To amplify. A couple decades ago when Sir Paul wasn't yet a knight, he was giving a concert at the Cal Berkeley football stadium. BART was so jammed with riders that they were running 10 car trains on a Saturday, and when I got to Fremont (going opposite for dinner w/ friends) I saw they hard card tables staffed by office staff manually selling tix for cash. (guarded by BART PD). The system was swamped.I then thought that all large venue events should be surcharged a couple bucks to facilitate the extra service, but with the event tix serving as a "day pass" for transit to the event. While this could have been easily done in the hard ticket past, it seems to me that a "splash dot" on one's cell could be used now. The principle remains the same, the attendees pay a bit more for the show in trade for transit access including the guaranteed ride home. Because many of us would already have monthly transit passes, the agencies should make out because with electronic fare registry actual usage could be easily sorted out by agency for distributing the funds. |
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