Imagine this: you build highways and bridges and tunnels into your city from all sides...but shut them down for 80% of the day.
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Somehow, the Commuter Rail manages to create a monstrous hybrid of flat rates and distance based rates, all due to its arbitrary definition
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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
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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
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“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
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“Commuter rail just doesn’t work very well anymore." It never has! Why do you think freight railroads handed that service to the state?
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"Commuter Rail" is a poisonous concept, an form of transportation that actively hinders transportation. A titanic waste of useful railways.
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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!
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Frequent trips. Multiple units. Distance based fares. BOSTON! WE MUST FIX THIS!
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