A Trax train moves up Main Street in front of the new City Creek Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 19, 2012.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
We used Trax to go to two Pioneer Days events this year. Both times it took at least half an hour to get return tickets from the automated ticket machines. The question that so many wanted to know is: Why can't we buy round trip, reduced-fare tickets?
When you consider that a vast majority of those buying tickets after the events were seniors that were unfamiliar with the electronic device and two of the machines would not take dollar bills, it would make sense to provide round trip, reduced fares to reduce the frustration and greatly improve the overall satisfaction of UTA customers.
Jim Kelley
Magna
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When I ride the TRAX, I either buy a roundtrip ticket for $4.70 or an day pass for $5.75, depending on where I'm going. It seems strange to me that anyone would buy a one-way ticket when they know that they'll need to buy a return ticket More..
Roundtrip tickets, good. Reduced fare, bad.
Recently I spoke with a man who showed me a permanent, no fare pass for any UTA transit. He explained that all I had to do to get the pass was to have my electric wheel chair certified and More..
A few days ago I read an article in the DN that said that the UTA "recovery rate" was approx 20% so by crude mathematical calculations the round trip fare should have been approximately 20.00 to pay for the actual cost to taxpayers- or in More..