Originally Posted by dgs
Interestingly, Chris X (perpetual NYC mayoral candidate) claims that it owuld be more cost-effecient to just make mass transit free, i.e. the moeny collected from riders is less than the amount necessary to supply metro cards, metro card vending machines, turnstiles, turnstile upkeep, etc. I haven't seen the numbers, but it's definitely an interesting idea I'd like to explore further.
i think that this would make sense. when you think about it there are something like 2 turnstile staff per small station, more in the bigger ones. then youve gotta hire people to go down and refill the ticket machines and take the cash out and do all that other stuff. ive neva thought about it like that before