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The Blue-Ribbon Panel s mission is to reduce fare and toll evasion rates and dollar losses by half within three years across the entire MTA while boosting paid ridership.
'This is not your grandfather’s approach to fare evasion. It’s fresh, it’s different, it’s comprehensive.'
While some of the country’s largest transit operators are cracking down on fare dodgers with expensive—and often cumbersome—turnstiles and gates, others are looking deeper to address the root causes of fare evasion.
Police have arrested a man in connection to the shooting of three MTA evasion workers in Brooklyn.
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Samuel White, 49, is facing attempted murder, reckless endangerment and gun possession charges for allegedly opening fire at members of the MTA’s Eagle Team — inspectors who do spot checks to make sure passengers have paid their fare — at a bus stop in Starrett City early Tuesday.