The Gentrification of Fare Evasion
As more transit riders who can afford to pay fares jump them instead, will U.S. cities step up efforts to increase collections?
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As more transit riders who can afford to pay fares jump them instead, will U.S. cities step up efforts to increase collections?
Two cities on opposite coasts may be experiencing the gentrification of fare evasion. Janno Lieber, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, recently complained that security cameras had captured among the 12.5 percent of riders who don’t swipe at subway turnstiles “countless images of people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes, waltzing through emergency gates at […]
Sound Transit no longer has mechanisms in place to check I-D's and track who isn't paying in the first place with their decision to remove law enforcement from the fare enforcement process.
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