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Originally Posted by Zorro
Actually, no. I can think of a bunch of reasons, but first I'd take Economies of Scale... The human in the booth can sell tickets for all trains NJ Transit runs. The conductor can only sell tickets for the train you're riding. I'll let you do the math.
...the human in the booth argument is a red herring anyway. The point of charging you an excessive amount is to encourage you to buy from a machine on the platform.
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I get your second point that they're trying to discourage our basing it on the train. I never disputed that fact, so I don't know why you're arguing like I did. The conductor is already there, it's not costing them more to collect cash there. I'll give it may take him a few moments more, and also concede a small surcharge is fair, but doubling up the cost is again taking dvantage of someone who has no option at that point except to get off the train, buy a ticket at a machine and then wait for the next train. I just think doubling the cost is excessive and don't see how people argue it isn't.