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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017

      Boston, Boston, we need to have a talk:http://roslindale.wickedlocal.com/news/20160310/parkway-residents-voice-concerns-over-commuter-rail-fares …

      1 reply 4 retweets 15 likes
    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Let's start with the elephant in the room: “Commuter rail is commuter rail. It’s not transit."

      1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017

      "It’s designed to bring people into the city in the morning and take them home at night.” Then it's a flagrant waste of resources!

      9:33 AM - 24 Apr 2017
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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Imagine this: you build highways and bridges and tunnels into your city from all sides...but shut them down for 80% of the day.

          2 replies 3 retweets 18 likes
        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          You only open them a few times in the morning & a few in the evening. Would the number of people using them reflect their potential value?

          1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Or would it instead reflect an enormous investment being strangled by a worthless distinction? "No no, these are COMMUTER roads, not roads"

          1 reply 3 retweets 10 likes
        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          If the purpose of commuter rail is *only* to account for peak inbound AM commutes and peak outbound PM commutes, just don't build it

          1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          But if the purpose is TRANSPORTATION, which is the case wherever commuter rail is well-used, then it needs schedules that reflect this.

          1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          That means frequent trips in both directions all day. That means MUs, whether diesel or electric--not locomotives.

          2 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Somehow, MBTA--and similar agencies--have fooled themselves into thinking that the only sort of travel that people do is to and from work.

          1 reply 6 retweets 19 likes
        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          They try to cater to this market and scratch their heads when they can't get enough ridership to cover operating expenses.

          1 reply 3 retweets 8 likes
        10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Kidding! They don't believe it's *possible* to cover operating expenses with high ridership, so they don't try to achieve it.

          2 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
        11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          With that out of the way--let's address fares here... What you want is a fare system which charges based on distance traveled.

          1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
        12. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          This is something I've argued for in the past. Flat rates encourage longer routes/trips (ie, higher maintenance costs), punishing short ones

          1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
        13. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Somehow, the Commuter Rail manages to create a monstrous hybrid of flat rates and distance based rates, all due to its arbitrary definition

          1 reply 3 retweets 7 likes
        14. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          You see, bc it's "for getting people into the city in the AM and out in the PM," you're charged a flat rate based on distance to terminals

          2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
        15. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          In other words, if you're NOT riding all the way into town, don't even bother showing up! You'll get gouged, charged for travel you don't do

          2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
        16. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          “It’s very exciting to see the city taking an interest in public transit” what would be REALLY exciting would be the MBTA taking an interest

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        17. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          “Commuter rail just doesn’t work very well anymore." It never has! Why do you think freight railroads handed that service to the state?

          1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
        18. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          "Commuter Rail" is a poisonous concept, an form of transportation that actively hinders transportation. A titanic waste of useful railways.

          4 replies 13 retweets 27 likes
        19. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          If you want railways to be useful for commuters, they must be useful for non-commuters too--who, after all, are a larger transit market!

          1 reply 4 retweets 10 likes
        20. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Apr 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Frequent trips. Multiple units. Distance based fares. BOSTON! WE MUST FIX THIS! #TrainTwitter

          3 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
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