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individualize the number of * trips per student to adjust for extra-curricular activities. Then you could track each individual student? Decide if they might be truant including if they didn't use it, or went the wrong way? * "Last Clink for Token-Only Turnstiles" * By Garry Pierre-Pierre, The New York Times, May 14 1997 * * The last token-only turnstile was ripped out today. * * Officials have spent $700 million over a four-year period to automate the * system, including upgrading the electrical wiring and the computer systems * to link up the vast network. * * Tokens will be eliminated in a year or so. * * For years, transit riders and advocates have been demanding discounts like * other cities, but transit officials said they couldn't do it without an * electronic system. * * In 1995, the Transit Authority lost $300 million in city, state and Federal * subsidies, and had to reduce and eliminate some bus and subway service, * along with some cleaning. Not counting the long-promised discounts, the * city is also offering free bus-subway transfers which will cost it another * $168 million. Wow. They are hurting for money, yet spent $700 million on it to offer discounts? They aren't expecting to monitor individual users, like in Singapore, are they? Let's see...they don't print them up in advance -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.6.8 mGsDX4OvCgJhfvl0LbYzTNxQHpGsdMIhinkwJb8wscG8LqRqhQ z8c27FwrOEdsao 0hh3KoFELPLEJ9UPufRp0/EG4QVPClWRilSVn2akfIrRM30Edog/AR76A5YBDHNL UZIoFGH15ntndteEcLFF7jnyC3XU70WE8OrCbbJKIjjNgxEEsK Qq3ZnNatnJHQKu HDg/6Z8LgrfVYJdJ8CSM5d== =9oaU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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