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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to see the stats on when and how much fair jumping hasn’t risen in recent years. When I was a kid taking the metro I just don’t remember this being a thing. And maybe I was just ignorant, and I’m sure some teenagers were doing it, but in the early days of Metro I think there was just more pride in following the rules

If I lost my fare card, I would literally go up to random grown-ups and ask them if I could have a dollar or two. Or go to the station manager. But the idea of jumping the turnstile just wasn’t even on my radar. Again, maybe I was not paying attention

Now I take the metro as a grown-up, it seems every other person under 25 or so is jumping the turnstile. Only suckers pay![/quote]

If you’re in my age group, we used tokens to ride the bus and subway. The cost was negligible, but we paid. At some point in the last twenty years, DC began funding the cost to ride the metro system for all students. The kids constantly lose their metro passes and the schools do not have an immediate ready supply for replacement. The kids know they ride free, so they just get on the buses and jump subway turnstiles without paying. The city even provides a free metro pass for those in the Marion BarrySummer youth program to get to and from their assigned jobs. I remember my kid failed to pick his up his and his response was “it doesn’t matter. It’s free they let us just walk through when we lose our pass  NBD.”  I had to explain how much of a big deal it really was. [/quote]

I don’t believe for a second that most fare evaders are just DC students who lost their cards. [/quote]

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