On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:49:31 PM UTC-4, General Kireiko wrote:   
      
   > Free Out-of-System MetroCard Transfer.  Similar to changing trains at 63rd   
   > and Lex (F) to the IRT at 59th St (4, 5, 6), which I believe still is a   
   > free transfer.   
      
   I remember transferring from the IND subway to the BMT elevated in   
   Brooklyn and there was a 'TA man on the staircase handing out   
   little tickets to be used as a transfer.  It's now built in.   
   BTW, the little tickets were printed as "BMT", nothing about   
   the NYCTA.   
      
   Presumably that job was bid out like other jobs.  I wonder if such   
   an assignment was popular or undesirable.   
      
   Does the MTA still employ elevator operators, or have all them   
   been automated?  I remember an old elevator at an IND station uptown   
   (maybe near the Cloisters) with a man operating it.  Didn't seem   
   like a great job, merely going up and down between the entrance and   
   the station.   
      
   Ironically, with handicapped access, there are more elevators,   
   but AFAIK they're all automated.  Unfortunately, the NYT says   
   they frequently break down.   
      
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