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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They could try to put fare boxes on the outside. Maybe like scan your card or insert money, and then the doors open. It would slow things down and suck for customers that were already paying.[/quote]

Imagine if drivers had to get out of their cars and scan a payment card every time they wanted to get on a road. How much would they complain? Why do we make it seamless for them to drive long distances, cross jurisdictions and "transfer" between roads but make it a real expense and chore to bus riders to do the same? [/quote]

If drivers evade a toll, then they get a bill automatically sent to their house. If you don't pay to get on the bus, then you can't get on (the doors don't open0.[/quote]

I can drive all over DC and never use a toll road. Why shouldn't I have the same no-pay option when I take a bus?[/quote]

You're still paying gas taxes.[/quote]

And bus riders pay the sales and income taxes that fund public transit. We realize that user fees are terrible for drivers, but for some reason insist on them for transit. We should either have no user fees for transportation, or all transportation users should have to pay a user fee. [/quote]

User fees are terrible for drivers? You might want to tell that to New York democrats.

I think we should be encouraging people to ride public transit. Perhaps even making it free. But until and unless we do that, people should pay the fare.[/quote]

"People should pay the fare" and "WMATA should target people who don't pay the fare" are two different things.

User fees are good insofar as they encourage actions we want to encourage and/or discourage actions we want to discourage. The idea of congestion pricing in NYC is to discourage people going to lower Manhattan during peak hours by car; going into lower Manhattan by car during peak hours is an action we (should) want to discourage.[/quote]

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