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Where do you live if you believe bums pay fare? It's definitely not the case in LA, SF and NYC. Make it 10x expensive and they still pay 10x0 i.e. 0.
by pandaman 4y ago
Where do you live if you believe bums pay fare? It's definitely not the case in LA, SF and NYC. Make it 10x expensive and they still pay 10x0 i.e. 0.
- kelnos 4y agoHell, a few weeks ago I was on a train in SF, and saw a family of five get on the train (definitely on their way to see a basketball game), and they didn't pay. If people who can afford 5 tickets to a Warriors game during the playoffs/finals/whatever it was won't spend $12.50 to get their family to the stadium (after they probably spent $75 to park their car), how can we expect homeless people to pay? Enforcement is also nearly nonexistent, and I expect it's even more nonexistent since COVID started. In 12 years of riding transit in SF, I've only once witnessed a group of transit employees board a bus to check that everyone had paid. Anyone who rides transit frequently (and doesn't pay) is likely saving money even if they have to pay the vanishingly rare fine if they're caught.
- bombcar 4y agoWhich indicates it's an enforcement problem, which can be solved by more thorough checking, gates that read/charge, or just giving up and declaring that everyone "living in the city" gets a pass. I've often suspected that metro fares are basically an excuse for the cops to kick bums/undesirables off the train.