{"id":3192,"date":"2008-03-04T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/the_everything_bagel_theory_of_fare_collection.html"},"modified":"2008-03-04T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:56:44","slug":"the_everything_bagel_theory_of_fare_collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/the_everything_bagel_theory_of_fare_collection.html","title":{"rendered":"The Everything Bagel Theory Of Fare Collection . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . take all the crap-ass burnt bits and cobble together a fare<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On its first business day, the MTA’s fare hike yesterday baffled mass-transit travelers — who had conniptions over the higher costs — as discounts dropped from 20 percent to 15 percent on MetroCards. <\/p>\n

“I was kind of confused. I didn’t read the question right,” said Alana Chitty, 21, who mistakenly bought a $20 card from a Grand Central Terminal vending machine when she only wanted a $7 card. <\/p>\n

“I put $20 and got no change back,” she said. “I’m pissed. I want my money.” <\/p>\n

The clerk at the nearby booth would not refund her money. <\/p>\n

So Chitty, from Rye, was stuck with a $20 card that will leave her with a $3 bonus credit on the card. If she refills it for another $20, then she will have three “free” rides. <\/p>\n

Had she got the $7 card she sought, she would have four rides because it comes with a $1.05 bonus — enough to pay for the fourth ride with a useless 5 cents left over. <\/p>\n

She wasn’t the only one ticked off by the new transit tabulations. <\/p>\n

“I was very annoyed that I didn’t get an extra round trip with my $10 card. Now I [have] $11.50 and I’m sure bits of money will be left on the card I won’t use,” said David Buckley, 48, an executive recruiter from Maplewood, NJ, at the Rockefeller Center station. <\/p>\n

Another rider, Garian Giscombe, 25, felt the same about the $10 cards that used to provide one free ride. <\/p>\n

“I don’t know what I’m gonna do with the $1.50 bonus,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But at least the cost of a single ride hasn’t gone beyond that of a slice of pizza, the usual indicator<\/a> . . . after all, it’s important to keep up appearances<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . take all the crap-ass burnt bits and cobble together a fare: On its first business day, the MTA’s fare hike yesterday baffled mass-transit travelers — who had conniptions over the higher costs — as discounts dropped from 20 percent to 15 percent on MetroCards. “I was kind of confused. I didn’t read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}