Kidding! They don't believe it's *possible* to cover operating expenses with high ridership, so they don't try to achieve it.
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With that out of the way--let's address fares here... What you want is a fare system which charges based on distance traveled.
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This is something I've argued for in the past. Flat rates encourage longer routes/trips (ie, higher maintenance costs), punishing short ones
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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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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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