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This is an excellent article but anyone who uses the mbta knows it is overkill. If you want a free ride you can simply follow someone who paid or put your arm o
by endisneigh 4y ago
This is an excellent article but anyone who uses the mbta knows it is overkill. If you want a free ride you can simply follow someone who paid or put your arm over the gate triggering it to open.
- jimmywetnips 4y agojust enter a station that doesn't even check tickets like lechmere
- sva_ 4y agoThat's funny, I just took the T for the first time yesterday as I arrived in Boston, and was curious why such a large number of people would get on at a certain stop.
- prottog 4y agoWas it Lechmere? That may be because for the longest time (until the recent Green Line Extension project), Lechmere was the terminus for the Green Line, and so it became a part of a lot of people's commutes.
- kbos87 4y agoYou are right that they technically don’t check tickets but every now and then the MBTA police show up at a station and actually ask for proof of fare validation. I’ve seen people who are shocked when they are being yelled at and handed a significant fine.
- blamazon 4y agoWhen I used to catch the orange line from Mass Ave every day, one could just ask the friendly MBTA helpers there to open a gate for you. Ostensibly a service intended for hands full, handicap, etc, but they knowingly used it to let people on for free all the time as a sort of 'direct action'. No idea if that spirit remains at that station, that would have been 10 years ago now.