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Posted by Dan on Tue Mar 9 09:29:03 2010, in response to Re: Bring Back the ''Two-Fare Zone''?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Mar 9 04:46:17 2010. A return to "two-fare" zones is politically impossible, and thus pretty much a dead issue. An "income-based" fare would proabbaly be struck down by the courts.In the 1970s a lot of people felt that living in a two-fare zone in southern Brooklyn was almost desirable. The theory being that the second fare kept out "undesirable" people. Neighborhoods like Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, parts of Sheepshead Bay, etc. It was a false theory because there were and still are plenty of nice safe neighborhoods along the Brighton, Sea Beach, 4th Avenue, and West End lines, etc. I lived in a one-fare zone (near 18th Ave & McDonald Ave) and the neighborhood did deteriorate by the late 1980s but not because of the one-fare zone. |
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