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Posted by Nilet on Fri Aug 11 11:29:34 2017, in response to Re: On-Duty Metro-North Conductor Arrested, posted by lirr42 on Tue Aug 8 01:49:20 2017. There is NO legislative backing that makes it illegal for a passenger to get off at a receive-only stop or board a train at a discharge-only stop.Exactly! MNR may have grounds to charge you an extra fare to the next station, I haven't looked at their passenger tariff too closely... Either way, you can't be arrested for refusing to pay. Even if they had grounds for charging you, your refusal to pay would be a civil dispute. You can't be arrested for a civil dispute, and the MTA isn't going to sue you for $2.75 in damages. ...but neither MNR nor any of its employees have any legal basis to prohibit or bar you from boarding or alighting a train on the basis of the line the train is on or a letter in the timetable. Actually, they can prevent you from boarding a train. It's common practice for conductors to bar people from boarding southbound New Haven trains at Fordham. I can ban you from my store but I can't lock you in until you've agreed to buy something. Remember, MNR policies cannot supersede state or federal law! SubChatters as a whole have demonstrated a strange inability to understand that transit agency policies aren't law. In addition to "it's a crime to disembark at 125th," I've also had people tell me it was illegal to take photos on PATH and one even tried to claim it was illegal to enter an Amtrak platform without a ticket even with explicit permission from Amtrak. |
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