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Re: POPs (Was Re: Metrocard Gripe)

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From: Daniel P Tasman
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 00:00
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In Buffalo, standard practice is to have one inspector enter the car just
before the doors close.  The inspector checks for proof of payment
(Metro Rail ticket, Metro Pass or transfer slip from a Metro Bus) as the
train travels between stations.  At the next station, he/she leaves the
train, and boards the next train that stops there.  Odds are one in three
that you'll run into an inspector if you make the full South Campus to
Theatre Place run.

Fare evasion is only a very minor problem.  If you don't have POP, you'll
be issued a citation similar to a parking ticket.  The fine is usually
around $20, and supposedly little sympathy is shown to out-of-towners that
don't know how the system works. 


-- 
 Dan Tasman    tasman@acsu.buffalo.edu   http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tasman/
 UB School of Architecture and Planning          http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/
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From: tasman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Daniel P Tasman)
Subject: Re: POPs (Was Re: Metrocard Gripe)
Date: 1996/06/16
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