Posted on 02/24/2020 5:24:08 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
An income-based MBTA fare option could attract tens of thousands of new rapid transit and bus riders and could prompt hundreds of thousands more trips on the RIDE paratransit service, according to an ongoing T study.
If the MBTA set the qualifying income at 200% of the federal poverty level, between 50,000 and 90,000 new commuters would ride the subway or bus every year, MBTA Deputy Director of Policy and Strategic Planning Lynsey Heffernan told the T's board Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbur.org ...
Ohhhhhhh.....
BELOW 3 feet.
I thought it was WITH 3 feet.
I was gonna let my cousin Janice know.
If it is free...more people will use it. Makes sense to me. And it is already there anyhow. With zero riders or 100% capacity, it is already there. Maybe they could get high school service club kids to volunteer to clean the cars and haul away the garbage. This looks like a workable utopia. I hope NY. NY. adopts such a policy. It is NY isn’t it.?!
So low income riders will somehow pay for the increased operating costs?
The increased costs include more wear and, new equipment without the ticket revenues.
That’s not going to work.
I assume that none of these geniuses have ever successfully completed any business courses.
“If it is free...more people will use it.”
And operating at near capacity, they can make up for the loss with the additional volume of riders.
Well, the positive reporting on the study comes from WBUR.
That's Boston University Radio, an NPR station. BU's the place that AOC got her economics education from.
Never mind the business end, from the sociological POV and looking at the BART stories, all the MBTA is going to do is make it cheaper for the ne'er-do-wells to raid the formerly reasonably "safe" areas.
And terrorize the full fare paying riders.
Is Charley still riding?
Well maybe just charge everyone 25 cents. Two bits. Boston then New York. And eventually every transit system. The two bit solution.
Yes. George O’Brian didn’t get enough votes!
Yes and he will never return.
Figure sounds dubious, yet if it was free even more would, or if the government gave everyone free money.... The point is that getting more people to ride the T every year is not going to solve the problem of the MBTA running a $5.0 billion in outstanding debt, resulting in about 25 percent of the MBTA's annual budget going toward paying that down.
With about 380,900,000 people riding the MBTA each year, what kind of difference will 50,000 new commuters make, when they pay even less than others who pay less than what is needed for the T to run within its budget without a deficit.
The ones who will use it are marauding bands of "teens" who will have new vistas of fertile territory for smash and grab crime open up for them.
Not to many years ago, during the transition from Democrat Patrick Deval (Small Deval) to Republican Charlie Backer (Tall Deval), a left over former Small Deval appointment, Beverley Scott, was the MBTA General Manager. Her engineering and business skills were wrapped up in her Political Science PhD. Then came the February snow. The snow bound up the inner city transit trains for a month. The MBTA is a political sewer filled with hacks and government lifers.
and then the govt will scream that they need more property tax money for this tremendous increase in people riding the bus, isn't it wonderful.....
don’t forget the poop and the grafitti bound to be left behind by this new bunch of “riders”....
We lose money on every sale.
But we make it up in volume!
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