I think New Jersey Transit is evil. When I take the train to New York City, I leave at peak time. Coming home, it is off-peak. One would assume I could buy a 1-way peak ticket and a 1-way off peak ticket, right? Nope; unless I am missing something. These are my choices:
Adult One Way, $11.50
Child/Senior/Disabled One Way, $5.25
Adult Off-Peak Round Trip*, $19.50
Child Off-Peak Round Trip*, $9.75
Ten Trip, $115.00
Weekly, $97.50
Monthly, $320.00
Student Monthly, $240.00
As you can see off-peak tickets are only available as round trip. What really hurts is each ticket is labeled with the destination so I can’t just buy a couple round trip tickets and use them when I come home. I am wondering if maybe I could buy off peak and use it during peak and have the ticket-puncher charge me the extra bit. But what would he charge? Would it be the difference for one ticket or the round trip difference? Grrrrr! Maybe I should just forget it and pay the extra bit.
If you’re doing a 9/80 work week or a 4/10 work week it might be worth it to get a 10 trip or even a monthly ticket. Its funny but the cost of the monthly is about what it costs me to run my little car on my 100 mile round trip.
Oh well….
Good luck and have a good week.
-Jason