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It seems like an inconvenient time to tell us students that we may have to pay between 10 and 30 cents more per trip. We’re already under the stress of finals, and Christmas shopping has begun to deplete our wallets.
But these fare increases have been decided since 2003, and are less than the average of inflation. Also, the increased revenue will pay for an increase of trains.
BART directors remind us that we could have it worse–there could be no schedule improvements. They also disagree with the Clog and consider the Jan. 1 date a convenient time to enact their changes.
“Just as everyone is winding down with their holiday gift giving, we’re going to deliver our customers a goody bag of great service,” BART Board President Lynette Sweet said. “We hope our plans for richer service will put a big smile on the faces of all our 360,000 weekday riders.”
Well, we wouldn’t really call it a “goody bag of great service.” We’re not exactly smiling either.
However, we are mildly excited that Richmond trains will be running more frequently. It makes BART (despite the cost of the fare) a slightly more tempting mode of transportation than the usually unreliable AC Transit.
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BART to raise fares, increase train frequency starting Jan. 1 [SF Gate]
New schedule and fares January 1 [BART]
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