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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the reality of public transit:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/traffic/mission-metro/metro-warns-massive-service-cuts-death-spiral-transit-750-million-shortfall/65-9c0dc54f-8f65-46c4-8390-51e8108ac1a5

Where are the anti-car fascists now?  Have fun going to work or doing things on the weekend.  The anti-car crowd loves to give pie in the sky calculations that never account for human factors like crime, overrun costs, inefficiencies, and huge bloated salaries and benefits for the unionized workers bankrupting the system.  So glad we are spending billions more on this black hole with the purple line.  Watch, the only solution they’ll come up with is to increase taxes and to increase fares to outrageous prices.  It has never dawned on them to start with common sense ideas like increasing safety and severely punishing fare evaders. Why should anyone pay of a huge portion of people ride for free already? [/quote]

They are cracking down severely on fare evaders.  And you do realize that for everyone who rides metro, you're taking a car off the road. That's less congestion on every major road.[/quote]

NP who rides the metro fairly regularly and has fairly uneventful rides 95% of the time.  One thing they are not actually doing is cracking down on fare evaders.  I rode the metro twice this weekend and saw at least six different people jump the fare gates or running in after someone else paid.  There were security and metro employees who just watched them do it and didn’t say a word.  There were also signs right there that said metro is cracking down on fare evasion.  I actually think a PP was onto something when they said cut down on metro employees who do nothing to cut costs.[/quote]

What are metro employees supposed to do? Progressive voters claimed punishing fare evasion is racist so decriminalized it. You want a functional metro then set some standards.[/quote]

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