Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband

Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by saalweachter on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:49PM (#15956208)

NYP is New York Penn Station, the Amtrak station. Metro North leaves New York out of Grand Central Terminal. Sorry; the phrasing, while unambiguous to someone commuting from the Hudson Valley, was definitely confusing to most everyone else.

Metro North also sells a weekly pass for $166.75. Unlimited rides during a calendar week. The 10-ride ticket has two prices, for peak and off-peak. Peak-hour 10-ride is $247.50, as you said; off-peak is $157.25.

Very few people actually buy a weekly pass on Metro North; either you are commuting infrequently (eg, weekend commutes) in which case you want a 10-ride ticket, or you are commuting daily, in which case you want a monthly ticket. A monthly pass between Poughkeepsie and GCT is $521. If you commute 20 days per calendar month, your per-mile cost is $0.16 / mile.

(Metro North fare information here: http://web.mta.info/mnr/html/planning/faresMar2017/hhfares_m...)

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Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by saalweachter on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:06PM (#15956294)

Actually, since there is confusion, going back to the very beginning --

For the train route I myself am familiar with, the line between New York and Poughkeepsie, two different train systems serve the route, Amtrak (the company that does the nation-wide train service in the United States) and Metro North, a commuter-rail line associated with New York's MTA, via their Hudson Line.

I started with the Amtrak costs because the New York <-> DC train is an Amtrak train; most daily commuters will be using the Metro North, as it is cheaper.

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