In regard to commuter rail, not many people seem to know that monthly passes for city residents on MNR and LIRR average out to about $5 a ride already (depending on how often you use it) what really seems to be the down side for many potential riders would be the need to buy a metro card as well to get to there final destination. I wonder if a more viable first step in this issue ,would be to get city residents a free subway transfer with the current rates of a monthly commuter rail ticket.
Seperate to this issue, I also wonder about LIRR and MNR planned investment for double deckers trains. Seems like an easy way for them to increase capacity. I did hear that there is an issue with MNR using double deckers for the tunnel approaching grand central, but I also heard that orders for new single level trains have already been placed for both LIRR and MNR.
In my opinion if we are talking about getting daily commuters out of their cars or to have a more expeditious commute on the LIRR or MNR, the city ticket doesn't do much price wise, given that a monthly ticket within NYC is already around $5 per ride, usually less than $220 a month. The detriment to getting more people to ride the train seems to be the fact that if you don't work in the vicinity of the Penn or GC you need to fork over another $120 for the monthly subway ticket. A total of $340 a month easily pushes some people to drive and others to suffer long subway rides to save money. The proposed city ticket only seems to help in maybe getting the occasional commuters to ride the train since they don't t want to buy a monthly. I think a free transfer to the subway for at least city residents, would have big effect on getting more people on the train.
Double parking is a major problem that could often be avoided, but I know someone who recently got a ticket when double parked, but was in the car and the cop just pulled behind the car, beeped for him to move, which he did, but then a ticket was mailed to them. I didn't know they could do that, but it could be a good way to stop double parking without causing further traffic disruption.
In regard to commuter rail, not many people seem to know that monthly passes for city residents on MNR and LIRR average out to about $5 a ride already (depending on how often you use it) what really seems to be the down side for many potential riders would be the need to buy a metro card as well to get to there final destination. I wonder if a more viable first step in this issue ,would be to get city residents a free subway transfer with the current rates of a monthly commuter rail ticket.
Seperate to this issue, I also wonder about LIRR and MNR planned investment for double deckers trains. Seems like an easy way for them to increase capacity. I did hear that there is an issue with MNR using double deckers for the tunnel approaching grand central, but I also heard that orders for new single level trains have already been placed for both LIRR and MNR.
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In my opinion if we are talking about getting daily commuters out of their cars or to have a more expeditious commute on the LIRR or MNR, the city ticket doesn't do much price wise, given that a monthly ticket within NYC is already around $5 per ride, usually less than $220 a month. The detriment to getting more people to ride the train seems to be the fact that if you don't work in the vicinity of the Penn or GC you need to fork over another $120 for the monthly subway ticket. A total of $340 a month easily pushes some people to drive and others to suffer long subway rides to save money. The proposed city ticket only seems to help in maybe getting the occasional commuters to ride the train since they don't t want to buy a monthly. I think a free transfer to the subway for at least city residents, would have big effect on getting more people on the train.
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Double parking is a major problem that could often be avoided, but I know someone who recently got a ticket when double parked, but was in the car and the cop just pulled behind the car, beeped for him to move, which he did, but then a ticket was mailed to them. I didn't know they could do that, but it could be a good way to stop double parking without causing further traffic disruption.
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