Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 11:52     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
I got smartrip from my employer a decade ago and haven't paid for metro since. In the world of wrongs, this seems much less than, say, overstaying at a parking meter, which denies that space to someone else.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 11:51     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I swiped into metro yesterday (I ride it about once every 2-3 months) with $1.85 on my card, which is not enough $$ to pay the minimum fare. When I got to my destination, I couldn't get out of the exit gates. The station agent asked me if I had cash (what?!) to pay the fare difference.

And I didn't, so he opened the exit gate and I went and immediately loaded more money on my card. But yeah, I guess that's fare evasion.


So you literally walk around in life with zero dollars on your person?


I almost always have very little cash on me -- the only thing I use it for anymore is to hand it over to my kids when they demand it for buying snacks after school. Which doesn't exactly make me urgently want to plan a trip to the ATM to make sure I have more available.

However, I think every Metro fare machine takes credit cards, so if I were this PP, I'd have been fine.

You are someone that doesn’t take Metro and yet here you are with opinions about it. Exitfare machines only take cash. Now you know.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 09:39     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I swiped into metro yesterday (I ride it about once every 2-3 months) with $1.85 on my card, which is not enough $$ to pay the minimum fare. When I got to my destination, I couldn't get out of the exit gates. The station agent asked me if I had cash (what?!) to pay the fare difference.

And I didn't, so he opened the exit gate and I went and immediately loaded more money on my card. But yeah, I guess that's fare evasion.


So you literally walk around in life with zero dollars on your person?


I almost always have very little cash on me -- the only thing I use it for anymore is to hand it over to my kids when they demand it for buying snacks after school. Which doesn't exactly make me urgently want to plan a trip to the ATM to make sure I have more available.

However, I think every Metro fare machine takes credit cards, so if I were this PP, I'd have been fine.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 20:06     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I swiped into metro yesterday (I ride it about once every 2-3 months) with $1.85 on my card, which is not enough $$ to pay the minimum fare. When I got to my destination, I couldn't get out of the exit gates. The station agent asked me if I had cash (what?!) to pay the fare difference.

And I didn't, so he opened the exit gate and I went and immediately loaded more money on my card. But yeah, I guess that's fare evasion.


So you literally walk around in life with zero dollars on your person?


DP. Yes, frequently. Cash is for boomers.

Cash is huge among younger people right now.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-28/gen-z-is-making-cash-cool-again-with-viral-tiktok-challenges#xj4y7vzkg
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 19:52     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I swiped into metro yesterday (I ride it about once every 2-3 months) with $1.85 on my card, which is not enough $$ to pay the minimum fare. When I got to my destination, I couldn't get out of the exit gates. The station agent asked me if I had cash (what?!) to pay the fare difference.

And I didn't, so he opened the exit gate and I went and immediately loaded more money on my card. But yeah, I guess that's fare evasion.


So you literally walk around in life with zero dollars on your person?


DP. Yes, frequently. Cash is for boomers.


You have to carry cash in case you are robbed. If they don't get cash, they get angry.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 19:14     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I swiped into metro yesterday (I ride it about once every 2-3 months) with $1.85 on my card, which is not enough $$ to pay the minimum fare. When I got to my destination, I couldn't get out of the exit gates. The station agent asked me if I had cash (what?!) to pay the fare difference.

And I didn't, so he opened the exit gate and I went and immediately loaded more money on my card. But yeah, I guess that's fare evasion.


So you literally walk around in life with zero dollars on your person?


DP. Yes, frequently. Cash is for boomers.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 18:02     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:I swiped into metro yesterday (I ride it about once every 2-3 months) with $1.85 on my card, which is not enough $$ to pay the minimum fare. When I got to my destination, I couldn't get out of the exit gates. The station agent asked me if I had cash (what?!) to pay the fare difference.

And I didn't, so he opened the exit gate and I went and immediately loaded more money on my card. But yeah, I guess that's fare evasion.


So you literally walk around in life with zero dollars on your person?
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 17:51     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:I use assistive devices and am unable to step over the gates.
Do you think the station manager will open the gate for me for free, as an accommodation?


I was actually thinking of just asking too...why hop over, if the gate can be opened?
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 14:27     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Yep. I am a third generation Washingtonian, and I never thought I would want to leave, but now, I can’t wait to get out.


Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Agreed. There was just an election this last fall. If people are not happy they are in the minority and should leave.


Well technically only 40% of DC residents voted this past fall.


Right. That's about the same percentage that stick around after the birth of their child.


Only like 27% do that.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 13:54     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no point anymore in trying to regulate this. They should just use cameras and technology to count the people who enter a given station who don’t pay and then WMATA sends a $10 charge per rider to that jurisdiction.


Why should we socialize stealing? People will quit riding if prices rise too much because tons of people steal.

By monetizing the cost of stealing, WMATA can give DC, MD and VA the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or to they feel that it is worth their while to enforce it or not.


MD/VA residents should not be paying for DC residents' stealing, and vice versa. Horrible idea.

They won’t have to. DC would pay for every person who enters a DC Metro Station without paying.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 13:22     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no point anymore in trying to regulate this. They should just use cameras and technology to count the people who enter a given station who don’t pay and then WMATA sends a $10 charge per rider to that jurisdiction.


Why should we socialize stealing? People will quit riding if prices rise too much because tons of people steal.

By monetizing the cost of stealing, WMATA can give DC, MD and VA the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or to they feel that it is worth their while to enforce it or not.


MD/VA residents should not be paying for DC residents' stealing, and vice versa. Horrible idea.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 13:22     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Yep. I am a third generation Washingtonian, and I never thought I would want to leave, but now, I can’t wait to get out.


Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Agreed. There was just an election this last fall. If people are not happy they are in the minority and should leave.


Well technically only 40% of DC residents voted this past fall.


Right. That's about the same percentage that stick around after the birth of their child.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 12:57     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There is no point anymore in trying to regulate this. They should just use cameras and technology to count the people who enter a given station who don’t pay and then WMATA sends a $10 charge per rider to that jurisdiction.


Why should we socialize stealing? People will quit riding if prices rise too much because tons of people steal.

By monetizing the cost of stealing, WMATA can give DC, MD and VA the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or to they feel that it is worth their while to enforce it or not.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 12:47     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Yep. I am a third generation Washingtonian, and I never thought I would want to leave, but now, I can’t wait to get out.


Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Agreed. There was just an election this last fall. If people are not happy they are in the minority and should leave.


Well technically only 40% of DC residents voted this past fall.


Only because the Republicans in the DC government make it had for citizens to vote.


They can clearly jump a turnstile and get anywhere in DC to vote, dude
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2023 12:45     Subject: metro fare evasion is absolutely ridiculous
Anonymous wrote:Why not just shoot one as an example?


The guy who blocked that women from getting off the escalator would be asked three times to move were it me. After that? He owns his own fate