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Posted by Michael549 on Sun Jan 17 16:47:36 2010, in response to Re: It's Official In Staten Island! (SIR), posted by 156n3rd on Sun Jan 17 12:24:41 2010. From a previous message: "When you use a public transit system, even for just one stop, you still have to/and should pay."It is not that the riders should not pay for the service, but there are limits to what is feasible, affordable, and accomplishes the goals that one sets out. As I said before most of the debate on this issue was about the idea that somebody somewhere might "beat the system". That idea rather than anything else drives this discussion, it is the hidden agenda. The idea that somebody somewhere is getting something for free, that irks others, that drives the impetus to DO SOMETHING! The Stapleton station is 1.25 miles from the ferry terminal. Now just how many people are going to get off at that station, and WALK to the ferry terminal to catch the ferry just for a "free ride" into Manhattan? Let alone to do while trying to make an appointment? That is what the debate is about, folks who seem to be unable to live with the idea that somebody somewhere might get something for free, even if in actual practice it is actually rather difficult to achieve. Mike |
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