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Re: Terrible delays on Queens Blvd today + Recent lack of holding lights at 36th/4th |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Jun 15 18:44:27 2018, in response to Re: Terrible delays on Queens Blvd today + Recent lack of holding lights at 36th/4th, posted by Edwards! on Fri Jun 15 16:52:18 2018. Apparently, despite the rising fares allegedly driving passengers away from the NYCTS apparently there is more ridership than there was in the early 1960s. Back then, IND weekend service was done with 8 car trains on the expresses 4 car trains on the lcls (3 cars on Sundays) and in Qns, no BMT service at all and no dual A and C (AA) service on Fulton St in Bkln. The IRT ran with 6 car locals and 7 car expresses and the BMT ran with 6 car trains of steels on both lcl and exp lines on a 12 min headway on both Sat and Sun. Now with all BMT/IND lines except for the Eastern running 600 ft trains on lines some of which didn’t used to run at all on weekends at all, there are problems with overcrowding. That being said, there seems to be no excuse that the fares cannot be reasonably raised to meet the operating expenses of the NYCTS. These days they are making excuses for those people too0 poor to pay the existing fare, yet I hadn’t heard of too many reports of fare evasion during the great depression of the 1930s even though the nickel fare at the time was probably a greater proportion of the average wage at the time inflation being taken into consideration. Even post depression and post WWII into the 1960s and 1970s, I don’t recall fare evasion being as rampant as it is today. I’m not saying it didn’t exist but it didn’t seem to be as rampant as it is today. |
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