Northstar commuter rail boosters ask Met Council to institute a fare reduction, in hope of greater ridership, where enough of a ridership boost might yield more total revenue, even with each stop dropping its one-way fare by a buck. Perhaps it works. Perhaps not. Perhaps the sole result will be a bigger "in the red" bottom line for the troubled north metro rail experiment.

Strib reports. You figure out, would a buck each way make any difference to you? Would you commute Northstar, if not doing so now, if the fare were dropped to a dollar each way? What's the optimum?

At fifty bucks, one way, very, vey few would ride, but each hit would be as good as fifty riders at a buck each.

Not that it's any great insight to figure that last one out.