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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand the comment that most people are riding the bus without paying a fare.
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Having worked for a bus company for decades, let me explain this as best I can in a few sentences.

In the distant past, people paid. And if they didn’t, the bus driver could remind them and all was well.

Then we got to the era where people stopped paying and if you reminded them, and they paid. The we got to the place where you reminded the dare evaders and they assaulted you. That is a hugely expensive event for a bus company. And really pretty awful for the drivers. So bus companies started to ignore fare jumpers. And then people who would usually pay didn’t always.

And then there are kids who have no money who try to hop a bus at night. No one is ever going to turn a penniless kid away because they don’t want to be the last person to have ever seen them alive - and who turned them away.

Public transportation is a public service that benefits all of us who live in areas that offer it. It will never pay for itself through fares. The decision to charge and the amount are really a public policy decision.

Personally I applaud MC for this decision. [/quote]

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