They try to cater to this market and scratch their heads when they can't get enough ridership to cover operating expenses.
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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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get rid of the drivers/engineers too
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Care to comment on how this applies to MTA in New York, who puts almost all track/car work on nights and weekends?
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The MTA is not great at weekend service, but that's fundamentally a different problem than running trains once every 2 hours.
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They do have similar root causes though – overstaffing of trains leads to high marginal costs of off-peak service, which leads to less...
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