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New T fare structure to make life even worse for above-ground trolley riders?

The Outraged Liberal gets outraged (well, what do you expect?) about the T's plan to require outbound trolley riders to pay when they get offa that train:

... The system being proposed by T general manager Dan Grabauskas (who doesn't ride commuter rail because it's not convenient) reflects what happens when people who don't use whatever system for which they are designing "solutions." It is, in a word, unworkable.

Collecting outbound fares mean only the front doors will open on the sardine cans that pass for vehicles. That means passengers must climb up and down the stairs along the narrow clogged aisles of the Breda cars, shoving past backpacks and hoping the itchy fingered operators, desperate to keep something close to a schedule (hah!) don't close the doors in the faces. ...

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