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Re: Intermediate Station Fare Payment on SIRT (was:Re: Scrap pecking order with R44-SI) |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Sep 3 18:26:41 2006, in response to Re: Intermediate Station Fare Payment on SIRT (was:Re: Scrap pecking order with R44-SI), posted by tydev417 on Sun Sep 3 10:16:06 2006. No POP payment, no paper tickets or whatever.. The MTA already has a system-wide Metrocard system so it would only be logical to use that and ridership on the SIR won't make up for the amount of money it would cost to rearrange station platforms, implement MVMs, install turnstiles and booths at some stations.LOL, w00t for reading comprehension. Please read my post again and notice that I included Metrocards. A metrocard based POP system where a smaller TVM allows a metrocard to be swiped and spits out a POP ticket could easily be used. Nowhere did I say SIRT should implement a barrier fare control system with booths and turnstiles, indeed I offered that as a subpar alternative to POP. Onboard fare control would only result in excessively long dwell times. If the MTA wishes to stem the hemorraging of money from SIRT intermediate station trips the only really viable alternative is to implement a POP based fare structure. POP can be implemented without a change in rolling stock, platforms, or even fare medium (metrocard in this case). All that'd be needed would be for the MTA to develop a small, robust, extremely simple TVM which accepts a metrocard, deducts a fare from a PPR card or checks the validity of an unlimited car, and prints out a timestamped ticket for POP. It'd be possible to retain the barrier fare control at St George to reduce peak hour POP enforcement needs by having the printed POP tickets come with a magnetic strip which would encode the time and date in which they were valid. In any event if the MTA wants to reduce the loss they take every time an SI resident rides from any station but St George their only really viable alternative is to use proof of payment. |
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