Somehow, MBTA--and similar agencies--have fooled themselves into thinking that the only sort of travel that people do is to and from work.
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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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And the key to making it all affordable: no conductors
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amen to that too--fare gates and IC cards make them obsolete
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So do paper tickets and POP.
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Wait hold on in just reading this one tweet but I thought you said before commuter rail is the most important expansion needed in us????????
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yes--but in the Japanese sense, where what we would call "commuter rail" by geography operates instead like what we call "rapid transit"
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Ohhhhhh so our objection is to the only operated at peak commuter hours part and not commuter rail itself?
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There's a reason 'commuter rail' has a different definition in Europe and Asia!
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