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Metro Transit rolls out civilian light rail improvement agents

In addition to a recently-expanded Metro Transit Police presence on light rail, the public transit authority is installing 24 civilian agents to inspect fares and remind passengers about rules against smoking, loud music and other inappropriate behavior that have dogged efforts to lure some passengers back to the trains. Beginning Friday, the “Transit Rider Improvement Program,” or TRIP, . ....

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Metro Transit's fare enforcement yielding results

While riding the Blue Line over the holidays, Ernest Morales III was approached by a Metro Transit officer who asked him: "Did you pay your fare?" Morales — Metro Transit's police chief, who had indeed paid the fare — later laughed about the encounter with the community service officer (CSO) and said it was proof that the transit agency's new fare compliance program is working. The officer . ....

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