This Day in History: 1910-07-01
The Erie raised the rates to commuters. The rate for a monthly ticket went from $7.60 to $9.10 in Mahwah. The 10 trip ticket to New York will now cost $6.05, the fifty ticket to $24.15. In explaining the increased rate R. H. Wallace, the Erie’s General Passenger Agent, pointed to the increasing cost of steel, cars, locomotives, labor, taxes and even railroad ties (now 75 cents instead of 30 cents). The commuter service, he explained, has never and probably never will pay for itself. (Bristow)