On Oct 24, 1:24*pm, "Joseph D. Korman" wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Oct 24, 8:21 am, "
wrote:

wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:26:52 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 10:58:17 on Thu, 22 Oct 2009,
remarked:

If london had a flat fare system it wouldn't need all this overcomplicated
gate ******** anyway. You'd pay the fare to get through the entry gates with
a token or oyster or whatever and the exit gates could be freely revolving
turnstyles.

A flat fare system that coped with Covent Garden to Leicester Square as
well as Epping to Aylesbury, would be a feat to behold.

They managed a flat fare in New York. You ever looked at the distance between
Times Square and Far Rockaway?

B2003

It used to be a double fare out to Far Rockaway some years ago, though,
wasn't it? How did that work?-

Exiting in Rockaway required a token. Entering in Rockaway required
two tokens.

There was some sort of paper transfer for people who were traveling
within the Rockaways (described here within the last few weeks).

Here's a scan of the transfer:http://www.thejoekorner.com/transfers/rockline.gif

The local passenger still paid the double fare. *Paid three on entering
and got one back on the exit. *This was to protect the then private bus
company from 'unfair' competition from the city owned subway line.

How did they get the third token from the local traveler?

We had a "bungalow" there in 1955 or 1956 (whichever summer the major
hurricane threatened, so we had to leave ahead of schedule), and I
remember the double fare.