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Re: CitiTicket ridership (Flushing to Little Neck) vs Q12/Q13 weekend ridership |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Feb 11 23:26:32 2019, in response to CitiTicket ridership (Flushing to Little Neck) vs Q12/Q13 weekend ridership, posted by BrooklynTrain on Mon Feb 11 22:59:58 2019. A lot of it is people simply don't understand the railroad or know how to get / use a city ticket, or even that such a ticket it exists. The fare collection system lends itself to uncertainty (you have to purchase the correct ticket before boarding or risk paying even more). Those who are willing to give it a try take one look at the off peak (or worse, peak) fare and nope on out of there.I'm sure I sound like a broken record but a turnstile based system is far more intuitive for distance / time based fare control, as WMATA has proven. All of that said, dropping the fare to equal a subway fare is a bit too much of a leap. The Port Washington branch weekend trains typically run with all cars open and (aside from the westernmost pair of cars) still end up having standees. If they were to make it subway fare (or at the very least somehow provide 1 free transfer to the subway) they would need to beef up frequency to 3 or even 4 TPH for at least the Queens portion. |
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