01/11/13 The State Of Connecticut To Pay For Port Chester Commuter's Reduced Fare Tickets

Connecticut Commuter Rail has agreed to pay Metro-North the difference on each Port Chester reduced fee monthly pass, but the ticket price is still going up.
Metro-North won’t raise monthly fares from Port Chester as much as initially planned, because doing so would have led to a quirky price difference between Greenwich and Port Chester.
Monthly passes from Port Chester to Grand Central Terminal were supposed to jump from $247 to $269 in March, when fare and toll increases across the Metropolitan Transportation Authority take effect.
A monthly ticket from Greenwich, Conn. to Grand Central is now $263 — $6 less than what Metro-North planned to charge in Rye Port Chester, even though it is closer to Manhattan.
Without an adjustment somebody who lives in Port Chester will just buy a Greenwich ticket and get on in Port Chester, thus causing the State of Connecticut to pay a higher railroad subsidy.
To prevent this Metro-North plans to only raise the monthly fare from Port Chester to match Greenwich. Because Metro-North will be charging commuters in those towns $6 less than it planned, Connecticut Commuter Rail has agreed to pay Metro-North the difference on each Rye/Port Chester monthly pass.
That’s expected to total roughly $300,000 this year, but that amount will be less than the subsidy owed if Port Chester residents were buying Greenwich tickets.

There is also quirky price difference, between Connecticut and Westchester buses in Port Chester. A Port Chester commuter can get on the number 11 bus to Stamford pay $1.30 ask for a free transfer and then immediately get off the bus. 
The transfer will allow a Port Chester commuter to pay about half price, thus saving about $30 or $40 per month on the morning commute.