No it's not - the proposal is "the ticket is active the second you buy it, for both the app and paper tickets. No matter the medium, it expires in exactly four hours." This has no parallel in the transit world.
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If you want to see slapdick ticket collection, come to New Jersey. the LIRR is very thorough.
aug 19, 2025, 12:41 am • 3 0 • view
Distinction w/o a difference. Activating before you board = buying before you board & it activating at purchase. If you don't because you're trying to evade the fare, you pay the same penalty people have always paid if they board the train w/o a ticket. Idc if it has a parallel, it's a non issue.
aug 19, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
Ok, so I'm at a ticket machine at Penn Station buying LIRR tickets to go to the Mets game. (This is something I actually do frequently, since I live in New Jersey). They do faregate enforcement at Mets-Willets Point, so there is no evading the fare. What should I do?
aug 19, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 19, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
No
aug 19, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
Okay so stay in Jersey lol
aug 19, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 0 • view
I like to visit my family and attend Mets games, it's not that deep.
aug 19, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
then download the app?
aug 19, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
Yea it's the most minor of inconveniences, to say nothing of the still existing paper alternatives. I really wish we had this same energy for the "anti-fare evasion" subway turnstiles that we're spending millions on which constantly break and slow the flow of riders on and off trains.
aug 19, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
Or just pay the upcharge. Or get the ticket at the station after the game. Or before it even, as 4+ hour games are almost non existent now and the MTA agents are not gonna stop you from boarding over a ticket being "expired" by that close of time (they barely do enforcement now!) Again, non issue
aug 19, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 0 • view