{"id":862,"date":"2009-10-22T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T21:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2009-10-22T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T21:52:15","slug":"transit-operator-confronts-supply-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/transit-operator-confronts-supply-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Operator Confronts Supply, Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my! <a title=\"M.T.A. Weighs Lower NYT: &quot;Fares During Off-Peak Hours&quot; By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/22\/nyregion\/22mta.html?ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">NYC transit officials are actually &#8212; <\/a><em><a title=\"M.T.A. Weighs Lower NYT: &quot;Fares During Off-Peak Hours&quot; By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/22\/nyregion\/22mta.html?ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">gasp! <\/a><\/em><a title=\"M.T.A. Weighs Lower NYT: &quot;Fares During Off-Peak Hours&quot; By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/22\/nyregion\/22mta.html?ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">&#8212; acknowledging supply &amp; demand, off-peak demand pricing and yield management!!!!!<\/a> They have finally arrived! (That is, arrived at state of the art economics circa 1840.)<\/p>\n<p>Ladies, Gentlemen, we have the technology. We can rebuild transit.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, how long will it take Madison&#8217;s transit managers to figure out this simple technique to keep the buses full at hours other than rush?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/22\/nyregion\/22mta.html?ref=nyregion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC&#8217;s MTA is considering off-peak pricing to boost ridership during off hours&#8211;a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,123,439],"tags":[353,513,511,70,165,512,334],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madison-politics","category-public-transit","category-traffic-justice","tag-madison-metro","tag-metropolitan-transit-authority","tag-michael-m-grynbaum","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","tag-off-peak-fare","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}