The hell?
Why does this woman get a free ride?
Someone needs to slap an ankle bracelet on this cretin, draw up some Wanted posters and ban her ass from the system! In fact, she should have been escorted off at the next station. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Lady in Pink writes:
Aug 17, 2011
5:06 PM
Barrie North @ 440...
I got on at union. train isn't overly packed...there are go train transit safety officers everywhere...on the train and on the platform...
They are checking tickets...and presto cards...the go train officers get to one woman and he taps her card on the machine and nothing....he tries again...nothing...she pipes up that she's had problems with this card before and she tells him she tapped on at union and which machine....he calls the switch board and they radio back that this woman has 7 infractions and 6 tickets for the same thing... You'd think she'd learn!
He tells her that she should go get her card checked and gives her a warning... And walks away...I was shocked she didn't get a ticket...
It's always the guilty ones that get away with it. Why should they change their ways when there is no penalty.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, leaving Union on the 5:20LSE and the Transit Officers were everywhere too! I couldn't believe it when they enforced the "No Bikes during Rush Hour" policy. Biker Joe was pretty upset because the train was half-full and the GOstappo were not buying it. At 5.10pm. Doesn't get busy until 5.18.
I think the cost of the fines should get increasingly more expensive with each one given. Six tickets and then she gets a warning? Shut the front door! She should be up to about $1000 in fines by now! Growl, grumbler, grrrr!
ReplyDeleteThat makes me so mad! I got a ticket once on one of the first days of a new month after I forgot to buy a monthly pass(it was also year end at work so I was still stuck in the previous month). I had never received a warning or ticket before and had my previous 6 months worth of monthly passes in my wallet and they still gave me a ticket!
ReplyDeleteI'll bet there are lots of riders that ride without paying and figure even if they only got caught once a month the fine would still be waaaay less than the cost of a month's worth of paid fares. I've only been swiped maybe 6 or 7 times in the last year, I could have saved a ton!!! haha
ReplyDeleteI'm with Bicky - increase the fine for each offense.
The fare process should be as is on the London UK transit. You simply do not get through the gate without swiping a valid ticket/smartcard.
ReplyDeleteYeh, but I remember the days of the tickets and the length of time it took to go through the turnstile. I would think going through a gate during rush hour would create a huge backlog of people.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if they did a random blitz for a week at a time on a particular line?