[PRCo] Re: Fares in Pittsburgh

[James B. Holland]

Fred Schneider wrote:

> I did not explain that there were established transfer points in order 
> to prevent you from back tracking. If I wanted to go from my 
> grandmother's home off of Perrysville Avenue to Harry Bartley's 
> residence off the 13 Emsworth car down in Ben Avon, I could transfer 
> outbound either at Perrysville and North or I could use the transfer 
> twice and change to a 10/15 car at Keating Carhouse and then to the 13 
> car in Bellevue. But inbound I could only change at Perrysville and 
> North because the company deduced that I could go right back where I 
> started from if I changed twice and went through West View. Go figure.


Can't say there weren't established transfer points but with  
Pay-Enter-Inbound  and  Pay-Exit-Outbound  I seriously doubt the 
operator would remember where an individual boarded going outbound  --  
what was prevented through the simple rule printed on the transfer Is a 
round trip  --  """Not good on route notched."""


> There were always rules too that you could get a transfer only when 
> you paid the fare ... probably not important that the motorman saw 
> that you paid the fare because how else would you be there .... but 
> perhaps more important in that it prevent you from getting one 
> transfer, passing it through the window to a friend out on the street 
> so he/she could get a free ride, and then going back and getting 
> another for yourself.


Not so much passing it through the window as preventing one who boards 
with a transfer which will soon expire from getting another one and 
riding continually.

Had someone pass their pass through the window at Stonestown, one stop 
inbound of SF-State  --  I quickly closed the door and took off while 
watching the passer  --  he saw me as well  --  not much either of us 
could do!

Not unlike pimples who complain about food in a restaurant to get a 
second meal  --  Professional Complainers.       But the  What One Sows 
Is What One Reaps  Law takes effect here and since planting one seed may 
produce an abundance, certainly much more than planted, It Will Catch Up 
With That Individual!




Jim__Holland


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