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From: mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: subways / European rail
Message-ID: <462@codas.ATT.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 18:36:55 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 12 18:36:55 1986
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In article <238@decwrl.DEC.COM> goutal@dec-parrot.UUCP writes:
>No turnstiles!  (Is Boston the only US city that has those?)
>-- Kenn Goutal

The Montreal Metro has turnstiles. Basically you pay a fixed fare
and go anywhere you like in the city. If you get on a bus, you get
a yellow trasfer ticket, with a punch code (they used to be blue),
when you transfer busses, you just show it to the next driver. If
you enter the Metro, you feed it into the turnstile. Then you push
a button and get a pink transfer, which is only good on a bus.
(You can stay in the metro system as long as you like). Also, you
can get as many of these pink trasfers as you like (although it is
against the "rules"). After a certain amount of time, these trasfers
expire, and will not be accepted (I think the time is ~2-3hrs).

The Metro is always 9 cars, and filles the station completely.
Things may have changed since I lived there 3 years ago. In 1975
a bus ride for a student was $0.08!!! Then $0.25 in 1980, and I
don't know what it is now, but it has probably doubled. Also,
you could by a monthly pass, a student's was $17 in 1981.

I have ridden the Metro in DC, and the subway in NYC and Boston,
I found none of them to be as fast or as quiet the the one in Montreal.
-- 
			Mikel Manitius @ AT&T-IS Altamonte Springs, FL
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