The MTA will temporarily offer discounted rates with a pilot program for commuters traveling between Brooklyn and Queens from Atlantic Terminal on the Long Island Rail Road to experiment how offering lower fares will affect ridership.
The study, called Atlantic Ticket, will offer lower rates to LIRR riders who commute through the Brooklyn hub in an attempt to fill seats on these trains, which have greater capacity than those traveling to and from Penn Station.
The stations in Queens where commuters can take advantage of $5 rates at all hours are in Hollis, Jamaica, Laurelton, Locust Manor, Queens Village, Rosedale and St. Albans.
The $5 fare will represent a 51 percent reduction in price from the peak hour charge of $10.25 and a 33 percent decrease from the off-peak $7.50, the MTA said.
The MTA said this would make up for the $2.75 a customer would have to pay for a transfer to the subway.
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Sounds like Barclay Center needs more attendance. Problemos in ticket sales? Hmm....bring the Jamaica crowd in to wallpaper the house.
Yep! Same shit offered for Mets games and MSG in Port Wash line. It AINT about ridership. It's about attracting audiences for these venues.
"Problem's in ticket sales"
Yep, nobody from the area can afford most events. Note the sticker shock on a Broadway play, the Garden, Beacon or Radio City. Its seasonal tourists who pay the ransom. The IATSE unions have everything racketeered up, locked up, locked out the cost of a production is so expensive you need for example 75% your seats filled at $50 a ticket just to break even. I know I was a sound engineer in that union, lets say they weren't the boy scouts. The cigars sole 1/3 my paycheck and wanted more in dues every year.
When they re-did Carnegie hall in the 80s they deliberately put the lights all the way up, removed the catwalks so you can only service them from the floor with a special IA electricians & ladder equipment.
You cant do anything in New York anymore unless your a mega sports corporation or media giant.
It's also about GENTRIFYING nabes in Brooklyn like East New York which has been removed for high rise. Drive out the people of color to Long Island into MS13 territory.
Most people from these neighborhoods are not going to get off in Brooklyn and take the MTA crappy trains to Manhattan. This is a waste of time and of course the test period will produce very low results of people buying those tickets and the program will be canceled. This is what they want they are all full of crap.
"The study, called Atlantic Ticket, will offer lower rates to LIRR riders who commute through the Brooklyn hub in an attempt to fill seats on these trains, which have greater capacity than those traveling to and from Penn Station."
There is no shortfall of riders on this line. the seats are filled plenty and most cars are beyond capacity during both morning and afternoon rushes.
I am curious about enforcement with the Atlantic Ticket. Now, if you have a ticket from Queens Village to Atlantic Terminal, you can also use it to travel to Penn Station, since the zone for Penn and Atlantic is the same (Zone 1) and the fare is the same.
Now, you will have two Zone 1 tickets with different prices. You don't think people will get off at Jamaica and try to get on the Penn train? Will conductors collect the additional fare?
Of course. The line ENDS at Atlantic Ave. with NO DIRECT access to Penn Statuon.
Waste of time except for the person who made money doing the study.
Wait until East New York gets developed to the max. It was rezonef just for that.
Too many high rise buildings...,too many people....an inadequate people moving transportation system. Soon we will all be choking on our own sweat tight packed like robotic sardines.
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