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I think that just the facility to buy an add-on segment to an Amtrak itinerary that allows the passenger to avail of a commuter segment to get to/from his/her final/initial destination/origination point, is easy to handle. It is basically a Thruway-like deal, and operates nicely on say the NJT Atlantic City Line. Those tickets would be sold only by Amtrak, and would require no linking up of ticketing systems. Amtrak can choose to designate certain groups of commuter stations as a Thruway Zone and issue a Zone segment ticket, and arrange with the commuter agencies to accept such tickets. Amtrak would use its ticketing system to track and transfer revenues for the same to the actual operator of the segment.
So for LIRR for example Amtrak could designate three add-on tickets - Zone 4 for $7 (Jamaica + Far Rockaway, West Hempstead, Hempstead, Port Washington), Zone 10 (Patchogue/Medford/Port Jeff)) for $16 and all zones for $25, or some appropriate discount agreed to by LIRR, any station upto and including the stations mentioned covered from NYP. So if I am coming in on the LSL and want to go to Babylon, I'd get the Zone 9 add-on and LIRR would collect that ticket allowing me to connect from the LSL to any train to Babylon, and of course vice-versa too. I think something like that s workable. The Amtrak issued ticket may cost a bit more than an LIRR issued ticket, since Amtrak would probably not issue tickets for each of the zone for simplicity's sake.
Making it possible for Commuter Agency TVMs to sell Amtrak tickets is a completely different ball of wax and is most likely too complicated and costly to contemplate.
So for LIRR for example Amtrak could designate three add-on tickets - Zone 4 for $7 (Jamaica + Far Rockaway, West Hempstead, Hempstead, Port Washington), Zone 10 (Patchogue/Medford/Port Jeff)) for $16 and all zones for $25, or some appropriate discount agreed to by LIRR, any station upto and including the stations mentioned covered from NYP. So if I am coming in on the LSL and want to go to Babylon, I'd get the Zone 9 add-on and LIRR would collect that ticket allowing me to connect from the LSL to any train to Babylon, and of course vice-versa too. I think something like that s workable. The Amtrak issued ticket may cost a bit more than an LIRR issued ticket, since Amtrak would probably not issue tickets for each of the zone for simplicity's sake.
Making it possible for Commuter Agency TVMs to sell Amtrak tickets is a completely different ball of wax and is most likely too complicated and costly to contemplate.
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