Bruce Mohl, editor of CommonWealth magazine wrote: According to Keolis, system-wide sales of M-Tickets increased fairly significantly over 16 days in September compared to the average for the same days of the week over an eight-month period from October 2016 through June 2017. The increases ranged from a low of 12.1 percent on Wednesday Sept. 20 to a high of 36.2 percent on Monday Sept. 25.
RenegadeMonster wrote:I think they are still getting scammed by people with mTickets and possible single ride and 10 ride as well.
Today, and once last week I had someone sit beside me who had a zone 3 mTicket. I get off at Salem, the last zone 3 stop. Next stop Beverly, zone 4.
These people with the Zone 3 mTicket did not get off at Salem. I had to request for them to let me out of the Seat after parked at Salem. And they just scooted back into the seat after I got out. I was one of the last off the train at Salem tonight and they were still sitting in that seat when the train pulled out.
I think people are buying lower zone tickets Outbound than they are actually using.
Edit: Pretty sure someone had a zone 2 pass mTicket too since the program started who stayed on passed Salem now that I think a bout it more.
Just sent a complaint into the MBTA about people doing this. Let's see if they respond.
enterprise11 wrote:If the CR moved to a proof-of-payment system....<snip>
dbperry wrote:enterprise11 wrote:If the CR moved to a proof-of-payment system....<snip>
MBTA IS implementing POP with AFC 2.0. Which makes this 'interim' ring of steel even more maddening to me.
See page 8 of this presentation:
https://d3044s2alrsxog.cloudfront.net/s ... pdate.pptx
MBTA is going in the right direction on fare collection. Keolis is being allowed to implement a backwards interim system that isn't integrated with or helpful in the context of AFC 2.0.
The Boston Globe wrote:The MBTA’s new push to check tickets on commuter rail platforms has yielded its first arrest. Problem is, the passenger had a valid ticket — and a bit of an attitude.
Jim Yarin, a 58-year-old Acton resident and longtime commuter rail passenger, had already paid for an entire month of rides with an October pass. He was detained last week by Transit Police on a North Station platform and charged with trespassing after the ticket checkers said they could not verify that his paper ticket was valid.
Yarin concedes that he could have avoided arrest but says he escalated the situation out of principle.
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