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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Tue Apr 7 23:16:28 2009, in response to Re: Interesting Method of On Board Fare Collection, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Apr 7 22:41:50 2009. The fact that half the time people don't get it collected because the conductor is too bogged down?Especially for short distance / intermediate riders. Personal experience: -On SEPTA, riders in the first car of an inbound R3 I took didn't get their fares collected until after I had gotten off (Media->Clifton-Aldan). Unfortunately, I was in the second car. -On almost all city bound trips I take from Forest Hills, I don't get it collected. As soon as you get on and see no seat checks, simply throw off your jacket and look half asleep, and only the conductors with good memories know. If there are still seat checks (happens so rarely I never think of this in time) you can probably just sit at one of them, since someone had to have gotten off at FH or KG. -On various eastbound intermediate LIRR runs (Mineola to... anywhere east) there's rarely seat checks, so just sit down (or stand at a door) and space out at the window. Easy peasy. -My friend rides from New Rochelle to Stamford every day, with a 10 trip, and he claims on Stamford bound trips he almost never gets it punched. I don't think they intended a 25% discount on top of the 15% discount the ticket already provides. -On NJT, a random girl and I both had a similar idea, which was unexpected since we sat across from each other. I had a ticket to Newark, she had a pass to Newark. After the conductor collected our checks (they tear them for Newark), he also collected the untorn ones for the NYP crowd. I didn't feel like changing at Newark, and had a NWK->NYP ticket in my wallet anyway, so I figured I'd stick around. The conductor came by, and remembered us (drat), so I handed over my ticket. She however (didn't lie!) said "I've been on since Princeton". Conductor moves on. Even the ones with good memories can be socially engineered out of a ride. But a green light does not lie. Well it can with our track record of keeping next stop announcement systems correct, but with a well programmed system it wouldn't. |
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