Sentence examples for token fares from inspiring English sources

For the first time since at least the era of token fares, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is redecorating its stations, rethinking its systemwide network of turnstiles to match ridership trends amid wide-scale demographic shifts in the city.

The White House's stated concerns border on the ludicrous — for example, that the president might be forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars when he uses Air Force One for campaign flights, because the measure bans members of Congress from flying the friendly skies of corporate jets at token fares.

The videotape, which was made by city investigators, shows the relative ease with which hundreds of people are jamming turnstiles throughout the subway system and stealing millions of dollars worth of tokens from fare boxes.

Because making change slows the boarding process, most American systems require prepaid tokens or exact fares.

Mr. Drapkin of the council's investigation office said the Transit Authority could thwart many fare box thieves by reducing the size of the token slot in the fare box, leaving no extra space to insert the sleeve.

By contrast, the system lost $5 million last year to turnstile jumpers, illegal gate entrants and the like, transit officials say, though they are pleased that this compares with $70 million a year in fare and token thefts in the late 1980's.

One of the common uses for the token was for streetcar fare.

In a stinging decision, a state judge ruled yesterday that the Giuliani administration must arrange for the continuing mental health care of thousands of inmates before they are released from the Rikers Island jail, and not "drop them in the middle of the night at a subway station with $3 in tokens or MetroCard fare".

Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello, after talking to the Transit Authority, said the eld erly would pay 15 cents on buses and for 30 cents at subway change booth would re ceive a 30‐cent token and pass for another fare.

Even when such tokens might provide a financial benefit, such as a discount on subway fares or housing, these tokens are not designed to be fungible currencies in the same way that cryptocurrencies are, but instead convenience tools to provide digital access to amenities.

The decision is a victory for hundreds of people who have recently complained that token clerks were refusing to open fare gates for people with strollers.