CNJGeep wrote:I have witnessed on Metro-North the conductors charging the rider to the next station. A good example of this would be Fordham. Many trains are receive only heading outbound. If someone gets on a New Haven train with a Fordham ticket at GCT or 125, the conductor charges them an extension to the next stop. Not sure if transit will be doing the same thing.
That is the theory. How exactly do you deal with a passenger who does not cooperate (I am not encouraging such behaviour! Please, respect all railroad personnel!)? Stop the train at an earlier unscheduled stop? Hold the train until the cops show up, so delaying it 20-30 minutes? Either way, looks bad to me. What I smell here is that NJTransit made Metro-North pay fully for the train. If the train discharged passengers at Rt. 17, NJTransit probably would have needed to split some of the costs and because of that Metro-North said that it is to receive passengers only. I wonder whether that would be enforced -- this is not Fordham which has been that way for many many decades, not it is Amtrak which is concerned with having seats available for the passengers outside of the NEC.
That begs the next question -- how many people are actually travelling from Rt.17 north towards NY state at that time of the day? The station is not that close to any employer of significance for people to walk to it. What is the point of the stop in this case?
