Originally Posted by
toomanybooks
I assume you know you can buy a ticket from a conductor for a $2 fee (which they waive for me on the Electric Line if the machines are broken, [which they often are and there's no human ticket seller here], so I bet they would if you told them the line was too long).
Unless things are different on your Line.
Yeah, true, I was being cheap

Not sure if they'd waive it or not (UP-N line). No charge at stations without a person working, but there's obviously someone at NW station.