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Posted by Michael549 on Thu Jan 14 13:40:18 2010, in response to Re: It's Official In Staten Island! (SIR), posted by ebtmikado on Thu Jan 14 11:10:18 2010. Until very recently the Tompkinsville station, like all of the other stations did not have turnstyles. None of the stations (except St. George and now Tompkinsville) had turnstyles even for the purpose of counting those who pass by. Thus the ridership numbers were kept at St. George, not at the other stations, because there's no way to count them.That is not to say that the train operators and management do or do not have a sense of where the ridership is located, and the relative numbers or amounts. It is that there's few quantifiable figures to use in the discussion. Since there was / is no way to count the ridership at any of the other stations, that left the debate up in the air of speculation. Well over a decade ago, when there were conductors on the trains, who collected fares, and issued tickets, there was a way to count the ridership. There isn't now, the train personnel now serve a different function. A point that needed to be stressed. Mike |
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