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   hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk to hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com   
   Re: A Couple of Questions about PATH   
   21 Dec 17 22:59:55   
   
   On 21.12.17 21:59, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 1:10:22 PM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk   
   wrote:   
   >   
   >> I would be interested to know if there is any ridership on PATH   
   >> exclusively within Manhattan, however, between Christopher Square and   
   >> 33rd Street. Any stats on that?   
   >   
   > I have used PATH for intra-Manhattan travel, and nobody else   
   > was ever on the platform.  The uptown entrance had but one   
   > single turnstile.   
   >   
   > My guess is that ridership is very little.   
   >   
   > There might have been more back in the days when the PATH fare was   
   > only 30c, much lower than the NYCT fare.  But now they're the same.   
   > I'd venture most subway passengers are going a longer distance   
   > or transferring (free) to another line, both of which cannot be done on   
   > PATH.   
   >   
   >   
   I see. And so the prospects of reactivating one or each of the shuttered   
   stations?   
      
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