[Rathji]

Ok, so lets play this game.

If you change the fare payment as you are suggesting, and assuming there are zero costs to implement such a system, why would you assume it would bring in more money?

People closer to their destinations would pay less, and people far away would pay more. Logically, people somewhere in the middle would pay the same amount. If CT wanted to raise fares across the board to pay for this service, they could just do that, without hiding that fare increase in a complicated zoning system.

The reason they don't do it is because it is a waste of money to have so many routes duplicating service, especially when the LRT part of the route will be the lowest use part of the entire transit system.

edit: Let me clarify, I am not saying that the current service proposals are going to be the most ideal, and that some changes might need to be made, but complaining that essentially boils down to "I don't want to transfer from a bus to a train" really doesn't make sense to me.