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Re: WhineMATA

Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Wed Jun 30 15:34:02 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by Scrabbleship on Wed Jun 30 15:05:26 2010.

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Peak of the Peak is one of the first recommendation of the Riders Advisory Committee at the April 29 meeting of the WMATA Board Finance Committee: See http://wmata.com/about_metro/board_of_directors/board_docs/042910_RevisedBudgetDiscussion.pdf

I can't find a specific board document or press release with the survey results, but it seems to have been supported (or at least it wasn't opposed) or else the board probably would have nixed it. I wrote a long detailed post on another board that I know you read about why peak of the peak deserved a fair chance. Your primary response to that thread seems to have been to create a new thread with a loaded survey question and equally loaded survey responses that would get answers you wanted to hear, and to respond to another poster who seemed to conveniently ignore the entire part of my post about potential equity issues or the lack thereof.

Despite what you claim, the idea of peak pricing for subways has been tossed around many times in the past. I didn't mention this explicitly in that post, but the idea of peak of the peak type charging was proposed for New York City in the 1950s by a Columbia University economics professor (who happens to have been born in Canada) who is considered to be the "father of road pricing" and schemes such as the Congestion Pricing Scheme in London are generally credited to him). The idea was dismissed by the Board of Estimate or whoever had oversight on such matters on account of not wishing to acquire the technology to implement such a system and fears of the cost in trying to do so, even though the report advocating charging a higher rush hour fare indicated that doing so could ultimately result in a savings for the amount of money required to collect the fares compared to the present system at that time.

I'm still waiting for you to share your letter to the board with the rest of us, or for a response to the PM I sent you on another message board where I ask several other questions about how you came to conclusions about topics you brought up.

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