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Posted by Fytton on Tue Mar 9 04:07:07 2010, in response to Bring Back the "Two-Fare Zone"?, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Mar 8 22:08:04 2010. I disagree. Free transfers from rail to bus is one of the main advantages of having a unified MTA in the first place - it's called an 'integrated transport system'! One of London Transport's main failings, in my view, was that although it ran the buses and the Tube, and had bus stations right outside Tube stations in many places, they never integrated the fares so you had to pay again on the bus. Even now it's only integrated if you have an unlimited, not with a pay-per-ride, unless you travel enough in one day to hit the daily 'cap'.Fare systems become integrated into people's lives and effect their personal decisions. It would be wrong to move away from the flat fare in NYC, just as it would be wrong to introduce one in London. People decide where to live and where to work on the basis of many factors, one of which is the transport available and its cost. To change radically the basis of fares (as contrasted with just increasing all the fares by a percentage) constitutes moving the goalposts in the middle of the game and is bound to be randomly unfair to some customers. |
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