Re:Tech recommendations for transit systems (2018)
by bifrost on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:46PM
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I'll revise my statement to "it seems too high"
Here's the article from our local paper that talks about it: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Almos...
The citation number is only a measure of the people who were caught, I'd venture that thousands evade paying daily.
Our transit system needs that money.
This is a meaningless number without context. And assuming fully 5% of rides are unpaid, is that really a significant strain on the riders who do pay? A large amount of fare avoidance is more a sign of poverty in your community (if a cost-benefit analysis comes out with a large number of people risking arrest rather than paying the average fare between fare inspections.) We should be subsidizing the fares of people that desperate anyway IMO.