the toll of inflation

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Feb 7 04:01:22 UTC 2009


At 2/6/2009 08:11 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>rom a slightly later generation, I remember well "That and 15 cents
>will get you on the subway."  15 cents was annoying, since unlike the
>earlier fare you needed two separate coins (or, worse, a whole
>quarter).

Admittedly my memory is fuzzy, but wasn't it when the fare went to 15
cents that tokens were introduced?  Or were you annoyed that you had
to use two coins to buy a token?

Joel

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