Fare Hike

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Wed 20 Feb 2008

Metro-North Fare Hikes Start NOW!

Posted by TJ under Fare Hike
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With the Metro-North fare increases starting March 1st, I thought I’d be clever and buy my March monthly now and beat the announced 3.76%-4.25% boost on monthly tickets.

Not so fast. Metro-North was just a little smarter than me, and my Web ticket cost me a full $7.84 more than it did last month.

I spent several minutes trying to figure out what percent of my old fare of $208.74 that $7.84 represented, and am fairly certain it’s 3.76%. So I guess I got off easy.

Next thing you know, those $2.25 Sam Adams will be going up to $2.50.

 

Thu 14 Feb 2008

The Fare Hikes Are Coming! The Fare Hikes Are Coming!

Posted by TJ under Fare Hike, Metro North
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Metro-North left some handbills behind for riders last night explaining the fare hikes that arrive March 1. “The vast majority of monthly and weekly commuter rail tickets will increase between 3.76% and 4.25%,” reads the “New Fares” flier.

(Am I the only one that thinks that the fare hikes would be less if Metro-North didn’t have to pay cleaners to scoop up all the New Fares fliers?)

Furthermore, “Ticket prices for one-way, round-trip and ten-trip travel between other stations will increase up to 7.7%.”

The one winner in all of this is Connecticut riders, as the rate hike only applies to New York stations. As if those super-low property taxes weren’t enough of an enticement ot move to the Nutmeg State.