Here is the video from this presentation: m.youtube.com/watch?v=TC_M...

These were precinct cops, so I guess they don't keep their MetroCards to hand. One was rummaging through her wallet to find it. There were several cars parked outside with their lights on, so I doubt it was a social call...

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Another problem with eliminating the 30-day Metrocard that @thelirrtoday.com briefly touches on: it *encourages* fare evasion. If every ride is an incremental cost, you're going to take opportunities to avoid that cost. Meanwhile, the MTA is spending millions to solve a problem they're exacerbating.

This. Why don't I take the LIRR to #isles games? it might be faster during rush hour yes, but not to get me home. And "faster" in rush hour isn't saying much.

They have passenger counters in place on all of the rail equipment now except the M-3's. I think you can guess why they haven't switched to using those totals...

Or that their one-way tickets are extraordinarily expensive (which they are, at nearly double the national average per mile). The monthly has always offered a ~50% discount, and that has gotten better over the last few years. IMO they eliminated the 20-trip Peak ticket in no small part to juke # 's

MTA's methodology assumes 94% of monthly ticket holders are using their ticket 5 days per week. On what planet do you think that is accurate of today's commuting patterns?

MTA's own survey data shows that only 51% of monthly & converted 20-trip users are using their passes 5 or more days per week.

I recalculate ridership figures using raw ticket sales data, and multipliers I weight from MTA's survey data (where people say what ticket they use & how may times a week they ride)

The real results tell a story that is far more nuanced than MTA's press releases www.thelirrtoday.com/2025/08/2024...

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Everyone is freaking out about how we will be paying for a Penn Reno/Transformation, but we'll have two dozen cops and conductors standing around at the tops of staircases and nobody bats an eye...

The rollout of the new meters has been very slow.

But they have been doing something similar in Hoboken for years now since they started charging for parking on the 4-hour streets...someone drives around in a van with license plate readers mounted on the top that checks for permits/meter payment.

Is that really true or is it like the urban legend that Montclair doesn't want weekend rail service even though they've been asking for it for the last 15 years to be told from NJT there's no funding for it?

Repowering existing plants with new/larger gas turbines that emit less than older gas or oil generators would be cutting emissions. It is probably the fastest way to increase supply while taking baby steps towards reducing emissions.