Public transportation should be free for all
i visited toronto ~2 years ago, and convinced the travel party we should take public transit for a day. most of it was great until we realized that red line commuter rail (seen in the photo) had no notice of some of its rails being under construction.
i planned everything out perfectly, but had to walk an hour back to our airbnb because that stretch if the line was out :(
other than that, we were able to visit the greek district, the cool/famous street(s) with all the shops (i forget what it was called), the stadium area, & the brewery district - all from that red line (and a subway to get there). i really enjoyed it : D
Maybe if they actually added some service at the appropriate times it would help? Especially when the concert ends.
And for sports events, IME a lot of the people coming in are from the suburbs. Firstly, a lot of the trains stop before the event is even over. Secondly, when there are still trains they’re incredibly infrequent and massively over-crowded.
Changing prices isn’t going to fix this. It’s a capacity problem spread over multiple regions and transport authorities
In Boston, the biggest thing they did to get people to take the subway to events is to run more trains.
Red Sox games are still a disaster where there are never enough trains, the station won’t let enough people in, the sidewalks are too narrow. It almost makes you try driving
Biggest issue for me is the commuter rail leaves South Station no later than like 11:30, so leaving an event that ends late is impossible or very close to impossible. I don’t mind getting home after midnight but if I have to take the subway to South Station first I have to leave early. That’s why I dont bother going to concerts at TD Garden if they’ll run that late. I will not drive into Boston unless I absolutely have to (Microcenter is an exception).
For Valentine’s day we did an event at the Museum of Science for an adults only night, but it ended well within that window so it was fine. That was the latest we took the commuter rail.
when services around specific events are this stupid i can only conclude it’s actively malevolent, because surely any normal person would realize that services should run until demand is gone?
