Add a comment The Copenhagen Metro has much higher fares than our Metro (in reference to the line ab

Metrorail fares will increase 3%, on average, and most Metrobus routes will now cost $1.75, no matter if you pay with cash or SmarTrip. Today, the buses cost $1.60 with SmarTrip, $1.80 cash. Parking rates at Metro lots will go up 10 , except at some Prince George's County lots, which will cost 60 more.
Michael Perkins : WMATA missed another opportunity to make their parking pricing make sense. They raise the rates universally by only 10 , and put an additional 50 on most lots in Prince George's vancouver corporate travel agencies County, even though there's already a large east/west divide in ridership, and the PG County lots are less crowded than other parking lots.
For the 2016 fare update, WMATA staff should do their homework and get ready to implement something similar to BART. BART staff are allowed to periodically review and adjust the parking rates in their parking lots based on demand.
vancouver corporate travel agencies For the cash fare on bus business, I think WMATA made the right call. The cash discount was causing a lot of people to load one trip's worth on a SmarTrip card and then use it immediately just to get the SmarTrip discount.
vancouver corporate travel agencies Dan Malouff : Just to keep up with inflation since WMATA's last fare hike in 2012, fares should rise between 2-3%. The Metrobus hike is a lot, but the Metrorail hike of 3% is not much more than inflation. But even buses are matching inflation over the long term. A DC Metrobus fare in 1975 was 40 . Adjusted for inflation, that would be $1.75 today.
Ben Ross : I find it very disappointing that WMATA has paid for lesser fare increases by cutting funding for bus priority corridors. It is very hard to take long-range plans for expensive "bus rapid transit" seriously if the area isn't willing to make modest vancouver corporate travel agencies investments in making its buses move more rapidly now.
Malcolm Kenton : WMATA still needs to institute some form of daily, weekly and monthly pass that covers both bus and Metrorail. Nearly every other big city transit agency that operates both bus and rail offers passes that cover both. If a 7-day "short trip" rail pass is $36 and a 7-day bus pass is $17.50, perhaps a 7-day "short-trip" rail pass that also includes vancouver corporate travel agencies unlimited bus travel could be $50.00. Similarly, a 28-day rail-plus-bus pass could be $260.00.
It's interesting to note that the deal remains in place that allows those with current weekly or monthly MARC train tickets to ride local buses in both the DC and Baltimore regions, as well as the Baltimore subway and light rail, at no additional cost. At $175.00, a MARC monthly ticket between Baltimore and DC is a great bargain for those who also travel extensively within either metro area: the only other form of transit it doesn't cover is Metrorail.
Can WMATA's rationale for these hikes be tied directly to any change in federal funding, or to a change in any particular jurisdiction's share of funding? Or simply to declining ridership and/or increasing costs?
Michael Perkins : Even better than that, the MTA sells a zone 1 bus pass that's good on all WMATA services as well as service in Baltimore. The Transit Link Card is just a hair under $200 and is good for everything. It covers rail and bus. Unlimited everything, including zone one MTA commuter bus and all the MTA service in Baltimore too. I don't know that there are any restrictions. Someone should try it.
The thing is on autopilot. I don't think Metro staff or the board really look at it so it just goes up with inflation every year, even though the peak long distance rail fare has outpaced inflation for a decade.
Metro has some of the highest fares in North America. I think only the London Tube has higher fares in the world. On the other hand, the trains are bursting with people. The London Tube also has reasonable passes, unlike Metro, vancouver corporate travel agencies and a congestion charge.
Myles Smith : I was surprised how close Metrorail was to the actual vancouver corporate travel agencies per-rider cost, with taxpayers subsidizing the fares by only about 20%, was it? Metrobus was more heavily subsidized, something like 60% by taxpayers. And any discussion of it should compare these subsidies to those of public streets for private vancouver corporate travel agencies vehicles (a 100% subsidy).
Jim Titus : We should not have to revisit every policy question related to equitable burden sharing, vancouver corporate travel agencies simply to make annual adjustments to account for inflation. And for the most part, they didn't. 55 comments Tags: fares , Metro , Metrobus , WMATA , WMATA Board , WMATA budget
Add a comment The Copenhagen Metro has much higher fares than our Metro (in reference to the line about London being the only one more expensive). Traveling within the downtown zone (a fairly small area) requires you to buy a two-zone ticket, which is 24DKK (approx. 4.42 USD) for one ride. There is no one-zone ticket, so 24DKK is your base fare.
WMATA should remove the Savings Calculator from the site. The costs of driving are always debatable (especially if the car is owned regardless of usage), but for many people vancouver corporate travel agencies in the region even WMATA s calculator shows it can be more expensive to use Metrorail. Of course the rail commute can be much longer too.
Myles Smith, I don t believe those discussions of subsidies promote anything worthwhile. They just make things needlessly divisive. Those 100% public subsidized streets for private vehicles are not used solely by private vehicles. Also, buses service a much greater area than rail. All modes of transit are not created equal. Ideally, people have more choices.
When comparing prices vancouver corporate travel agencies of transit systems I usually compare the price of things that people who regularly commute would use, since the amount that transit systems try to screw over tourists varies so much.
Even in Innsbruck, which is tram and bus, the base fare for within the downtown zone is 2 Euro (2.75 USD). If you re coming vancouver corporate travel agencies in from outside the downtown limits, the fare is 3.40 Euro (4.68 USD). If you re passing through downtown from outside to another outside point, vancouver corporate travel agencies the fare is 5.2 Euro (7.15 USD).
Of course, the service in all of these places vancouver corporate travel agencies is far superior, but you do pay for it. And they generally don t discriminate between modes of transportation for price -- one price per distance or zone, whether it s on bus, tram or transferring.
I often use a similar method when comparing prices of tickets for sports vancouver corporate travel agencies events, Michael Perkins. I compare the season ticket prices instead of the individual game day ticket. You re walking distance to East Falls Church(?) though. For many people, the parking cost and base fare are the true base price. How do the parking prices compare when looked at as part of the same service instead of trying to equally value them all as parking in the busiest areas of the region?
Paratransit rates going down....I know they are some of the most dependent on the system, but it keeps looking like Metro is being built and subsidized more and more for them at the expense of 98% of the ridership.
I thought I ve read that WMATA doesn t sell many monthly passes. If true, why raise the price? I guess it s simply screwy pricing logic like their parking vancouver corporate travel agencies pricing that people here have pointed out many times.
So is it fair that only riders take it on the chin and not WMATA employees who just received cost of leaving raises that no one else in the Public Sector (and few in the private vancouver corporate travel agencies sector) has received in the last 6 years and those same employees receive health and retirement benefits that many riders can only dream of.
If I sound cranky its because it is hard for me to find reasons to feel good about the surly WMATA staff I deal with every day, most of whom already make more money than I do, getting another vancouver corporate travel agencies raise on my back.
@Michael Perkins: vancouver corporate travel agencies Additionally, they aren t compatible with SmartBenefits, and they don t even bother to make them an actual monthly pass instead of four weeks. Clearly, WMATA has no interest in anyone actually buying a monthly pass.
So when the Silver line opens, I ll go back to buying a TLC+commuter bus pass for $200 a month. I ll have to use a paper fare card that tends to lose its magnetism in a few weeks, which is obnoxious, but otherwise it s better than any other option.
@Aldo Kelrast: Precisely. I object to the fare hike, like I objected to the last one. Whether it s distributed fairly or not, I d argue that it s not fair in the least given the paucity of decent service. I expect to get what I pay for, and what I pay for with Metro is light-years away from what I get. It s pathetic.
I, for one, support the unified fare for smartrip/cash vancouver corporate travel agencies on the bus. The higher cash fare could have actually been considered a regressive pricing scheme - the poor are less likely to use smartrip vancouver corporate travel agencies cards, I imagine vancouver corporate travel agencies (guessing here).
Anyway, assuming the bus fare of $1.60 was the "old fare," the increase vancouver corporate travel agencies to $1.75 is a 9.3% increase, which seems steep in percentage terms. Bus fares were last raised in July 2012, from $1.50 to $1.60. Inflation from July 2012 (according vancouver corporate travel agencies to CPI-U, seasonally adjusted) to Feb 2014 was 2.8% - by the time July rolls around it will be 3.1% ish, most likely. The bus fare increase is triple the inflation vancouver corporate travel agencies rate since the last increase.
Mr. Johnstone s complaint about the subway fare in DC forgets the reality that Metrorail is a blend of subway and electric commuter vancouver corporate travel agencies railroad. How do Metro s fare s compare with BART, the closest equivalent system.
Malcom Kenton: If a 7-day "short trip" rail pass is $36 and a 7-day bus pass is $17.50, perhaps a 7-day "short-trip" rail pass that also includes vancouver corporate travel agencies unlimited bus travel could be $50.00. Similarly, a 28-day rail-plus-bus pass could be $260.00.
No, no, no. This is the entire problem with WMATA s thinking. That price is INSANE for anyone who lives in the core and could actually use a monthly pass for discretionary non-commuting trips. It s equally insane that the current vancouver corporate travel agencies pass only covers rail.
What WMATA actually needs is a monthly shorter-trip bus/rail pass in the $90-120 range (like every other peer system in the country offers). Keep that expensive one for the long-distance, park-and-ride vancouver corporate travel agencies commuters, and offer something vancouver corporate travel agencies useful for those