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Erie-Lackawanna wrote: If they think they can get one over on a conductor ....
Tommy Meehan wrote:To me this attitude is unwarranted. It's not about people trying to get over but instead simply get transportation.
Erie-Lackawanna wrote:If you can't or won't do both of these things, then you deserve to freeze on a platform
Tommy Meehan wrote:Going way back the New Haven originally couldn't stop at 125th Street either. Based on some old news accounts, around the turn-of-the-century a combination of rider complaints and pressure from the city got NY Central to relent and allow it.
Not until Metro-North did any NH Line trains make a Bronx stop at Fordham.
Btw, there are some evening rush hour Wassaic trains on the Harlem that are marked "Stops to receive customers only" at White Plains yet if you're at White Plains you'll see about 50-60 riders get off. They're not all riding on monthly tickets either (those you just show to the train person, they don't have to turn anything in) having been on those trains out of GCT I've seen people present one-way tix to White Plains including off-peak tickets where they have to pay the step up. The crew member never uttered a word of protest.
Tommy Meehan wrote:Hebrewman At a 'stops to receive only' station in the old old days I 'think' the crew would insist a passenger wanting to get off there pay a step up to the first discharge station. In the case of a White Plains rider on a Harlem Wassaic train, that would mean paying an additional fare to Goldens Bridge, about 20 miles and several dollars away. I'm sure the conductor would allow them to get off at White Plains though.
I'm trying to remember when I saw a specific situation like this on a New York Central train -- yes I go back that far -- but it was so long ago. I know I did see these things happen. I think the trainmen would 'solve it' in the way I outlined above.
Hebrewman9 wrote:...I'm not a fan of fare evaders or overcrowding either- especially when the subway is only a few blocks away, and there's a ticket office (isn't it heated in there?)
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