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Posted by Joe on Thu Apr 18 13:44:53 2019, in response to Re: Doubling the subway fare in 1948, posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Apr 18 11:55:23 2019. In the summer of 1950 or so, I traveled around the subway system putting two pennies in the transfer vending machines, then catching another train to the next station with a transfer vending machine. I amassed a scrap book, which crumbled. Once, someplace on the Jamaica el, a change agent yelled that buying a transfer and not exiting was forbidden. I distributed many of the transfers (movie ticket size) at an E.R.A. meeting in the Hotel Roosevelt. A union objected to drivers selling transfers to the subway, so some buses carried machines vending the bus-to-subway transfers for a nickel. Within a few years, maybe four or five after 1948, the system was abolished to increase Board of Transportation revenue and cut abuse, namely people selling transfers or dropping any scrap of paper in the hopper at the subway station. Decades later, it was resurrected with the Metrocard and the two-fare zones (Riverdale, Throgs Neck, Whitestone, Laurelton, etc.) became one-fare zones. |
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