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Re: It's Official In Staten Island! (SIR) |
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Posted by Michael549 on Sun Jan 17 11:49:49 2010, in response to Re: It's Official In Staten Island! (SIR), posted by AMoreira81 on Sun Jan 17 09:31:16 2010. When Rudy G. was in office there were discussions on the forums about the then new "one city - one fare" program that was proposed as a part of the Gold MetroCards. Besides the Staten Island Ferry becoming free, one issue at the time was the lack of turnstyles at any of the SIR stations except St. George.Folks on the forum boards went round and round about the fare collection on the SIR. After a while, the basic concensus was that it would be just too expensive to outfit each of the stations with turnstyles and MetroCard machines compared to the amount in additional fares in theory that would ever be collected. Since the majority of the riders of the SIR use it to transfer to the Ferry, where the fares are collected, and large majorities of riders use buses to reach the SIR, the amounts of "un-captured fares" was deemed small. That is the number of folks who travel between the stations and then get off - plenty use the buses where their fares are captured. Leaving a smaller number of folk who might use that setup to their advantage - the creation of the myth of thousands of folks leaving at Tompkinsville and walking to the ferry without paying for the SIR. So yes, the fare system has been debated before. Mike |
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