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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Mar 9 10:05:40 2010, in response to Re: Extend the ''One-Fare Zone''?, posted by Fytton on Tue Mar 9 09:52:44 2010. 'There should be a single fare for local transit throughout the United States.'This is a reductio ad absurdum. It wasn't intended as it. Realistically, New York has shown that a single fare for 30-mile/2-hour-and-18-minute/one-transfer journeys on local transit works rather well. There's nothing gained by sticking some arbitrary fare zone boundary somewhere: you just double the cost for the people living near both sides of the boundary, and consequently they don't ride transit. There is a limit as to how far one can travel on local transit in a given time period anyway, so there is no big revenue hole in making the entire U.S. one fare zone. And we already have data tables of how much money each route makes, so it would be trivially easy to apportion revenue between transit providers. However, in a very much smaller, very densely populated country - the Netherlands - they have a uniform zonal system for local travel throughout the country. And the zone system is only needed because they included regional trains in it. I'm not even sure that's needed, as it merely gives people an incentive to ride regional trains for one or two stops. |
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