You would need to have a tax rate and remittance procedure for each and every city, town and village in the country. Some municipalities have more then one...
Some police cars have 2-4 radios. This allows local department, neighboring department and state network communications. Ham radios can operate on multiple...
Fare loading machines could be placed on Metra cars. I still have the funny feeling that cards might be loaded by somebody with a PC in a back room. This IS...
... Something's funny about this. Wouldn't incoming fans have bought round-trip tickets, instead of leaving the trains at downtown terminals and immediately...
... No, it doesn't, not under any fare chart I can recall, nor under proposed fares....
Adam H. Kerman
ahk@...
Nov 1, 2005 3:59 pm
26830
... They could have been returning to unattended stations, I suppose, and some of those people could have been buying November passes, as it's the end of the...
Adam H. Kerman
ahk@...
Nov 1, 2005 3:59 pm
26831
Following are the prices of the reduced [senior/disability] one-way and the reduced 10-ride tickets according to current public timetables. Where is the...
Roy G. Benedict
trolleys@...
Nov 1, 2005 6:28 pm
26832
Spoke to the Colorado Rail Car salesman today (didn't buy; just looking). He says that two double-deck DMUs in their current configuration could pull a train...
Adam H. Kerman
ahk@...
Nov 2, 2005 12:15 am
26833
Yes, you would have to basicaly have to check each address against a database. But seems to me that this would not be an impossible task for today's computing...
Daily Herald Study: More Latinos in Chicago suburbs than in city Associated Press Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 For the first time, more Latinos are living...
Does that mean that I am still going to have to dial "1" to hear English, our national language? ... test'; "> __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail -...
... While I can see your point of view - or rather that of the salesman's - I doubt that Metra would buy it for the simple reason that it would eliminate the ...
... It means our transit services will need to deal with growing number of suburbanites who need to get around, but can't use a car. The language barrier,...
... We have a national language? Since when? -- Robert Madison Milwaukee, WI http://community.webshots.com/user/rmadisonwi This message was composed using...
I'm watching the WGN news right now, and during a story about a medical testing firm scamming several gov't agencies, Metra got a mention, with a shot of what...
There is still something being missed here, FRA considers a MU (powered) cab car similar to a locomotive for inspection purposes. In contrast in the UK...
Not every station has an agent and the wonderful conductors won't sell a roundtrip ticket on-board. The real questions are: why can't Metra have fare vending...
The problem is not so much a language barrier - as long as you print EVERYTHING in Spanish you have that licked - but illiteracy. A fair number of recent...
... I've seen a couple of CTA bus stop signs which have nothing but a pretty rough outline pictoral of a bus on them. Not even the number of the bus which...
... Yes, I realize that. I've heard the argument made that IC service incurs extra operating expense as there are no trailers, each car is a motored cab car...
Adam H. Kerman
ahk@...
Nov 2, 2005 4:27 am
26848
The 15% RTA takes off the top is just about ALL given to the CTA. ... dollars ... of a ... subsidy, would ... said. ... trips ... from funds ... subsidy ... ...
... The suggestion was mine. ... Metra isn't the customer. ... They've not proposed building a yard in Kenosha and had earlier suggested that the service would...
Adam H. Kerman
ahk@...
Nov 2, 2005 4:32 am
26850
... Another aspect of the global WalMart strategy you're so in favor of; a race to the bottom. Instead of promoting literacy, we'll sink to communicating with...
Lower cap costs, how could that be? Remember DC pays for cap costs, very little operating costs, the FRA inspections are an operating cost. The folks on the...
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