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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 23 December 2013 - 09:00 PM

You may think I've been quiet lately about the upcoming Fest, but for the past week I've been working on a series of pages for the expected transit costs. Remember that we will be riding SEPTA (just transit), NJ TRANSIT (RiverLINE, HBLRT, Northeast Corridor Line, and Atlantic City Line), PATH, MTA Metro North RR (New Haven Line), and Shore Line East. That's a lot of different properties to cover. MNRR and SLE are on the same page because of the UniRail option to buy their tickets together in one transaction if you choose to do so. I also added a page for MTA New York City Transit because at least some will need it to get between their chosen hotels and the various start and end points of the Fest.

The direct link to the costs is here, and it's now enabled on the Fest homepage too.

Edited by KevinKorell, 24 December 2013 - 01:14 AM.


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Posted 24 December 2013 - 09:02 AM

One new option for the NJ Transit rail tickets is to use the free smart phone app - MyTix.

This app is very similar to the MBTA app many of us used last January in Boston. You establish an account, purchase tickets that are loaded on your phone, then immediately prior to boarding, validate the appropriate ticket. The ticket remains valid for 2 hours, 45 minutes. The conductor either just views your validated ticket on your phone, or may scan the code. Up to ten tickets can be loaded, and up to five can be simultaneously validated on once device at a time. That way, multiple passengers can have tickets for the same train on one phone. All you have to do is show the first valid ticket, then scroll to the next valid ticket.

Using the app saves having to buy paper tickets ahead of time and having to queue at a ticket window or a ticket vending machine. It will also saves last minute riders from having to pay the $5 surcharge for boarding without a ticket if the vending machine queues are too long. The app does not presently handle light rail tickets, although that is coming sometime in 2014.

The NJ Transit page for this feature, including complete instructions, FAQ's, and links to the Apple App Store (iOS) and the Google Play Store (Android) is:

NJ Transit MyTix

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Posted 13 January 2014 - 03:06 PM

Those who are buying paper tickets for commuter rail can do so all at once in Philadelphia, even the night before. You can use the "change origin" function on the machine in Philly to buy your Trenton-Newark ticket. As for light rail (both RiverLINE and HBLRT), a good hint for you to maximize your usage of the time limit on the ticket is to wait for validation until you physically see the train coming. It only takes a second to stick the ticket in the validator -- which is physically separate from the vending machine. While we have to buy these tickets before boarding RiverLINE in Pennsauken and HBLRT in Jersey City, we can speed things along by fewer people doing the transaction for multiple tickets, and then people settling amongst themselves.


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Posted 13 January 2014 - 07:01 PM

Those who are buying paper tickets for commuter rail can do so all at once in Philadelphia, even the night before. You can use the "change origin" function on the machine in Philly to buy your Trenton-Newark ticket.


Here is a link to look at the change origin option right after selecting NJ Transit tickets:
http://www.flickr.co...70/11937904463/

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Posted 13 January 2014 - 07:17 PM

John, has Pennsauken been programmed into those machines?


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Posted 13 January 2014 - 10:27 PM

I took a trip to Pennsauken shortly after opening and remember being able to get a ticket to that destination from the machine.

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http://www.flickr.co...70/11940494573/

Edited by jacorbett70, 13 January 2014 - 10:31 PM.


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Posted 13 January 2014 - 10:33 PM

OK good to know, as NJT has had issues in the past with keeping up with the expansion of their own system. Worse come to worse, had they not been available, the fare is the same as Cherry Hill, so it would not have cost any more to buy a ticket there and then disappear in Pennsauken.


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