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Originally Posted by djh
Wasn't it just a few months ago that everybody here was arguing that the honour system was so great and that very few people would jump the system? Didn't some nutbar argue that we should give free transit rides to the homeless so that they wouldn't feel the need to do B&Es to get the ticket fare?
And now, all of a sudden, everybody's saying we need gates? Plus, yet again, a bunch of bureaucrats are flying half-way around the world to see how something common sense works?
Like I've said all along, we need gates on Transit, or else people will inevitably scam the system. Now you have statistics to prove what is common sense, so hey, I guess what I said all along must be true now?
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The thing is I don't think anyone knew the statistics, especially the statistic of people who didn't pay their fines! We all knew about the cost to the system of those who didn't pay their fares. I would've thought that there is already some sort of fine to not paying your fine - like having the police knock on your door, going to jail, etc. I also didn't think fake names was such an issue, that the transit officers had a palm pilot or something to check on the name of the fare evader.
Our opinions were based on a Translink study that found there was not enough fare evasion to make fare gates worthwhile - that the operational cost of fare gates was greater than the cost of fare evasion.