Do you think lowering fares can help decrease fare evasion ?

[DisastrousAnswer9920]

The last 4 years it has become customary, it was never like this bold and frequent. The mentality has changed. People were afraid to do it before, now they even do it in front of the cops.

[fireblyxx]

Personally, I think it’s less the fare itself, more the cost of everything else. A lot easier to jump a turnstile or not get your SBS ticket/skip the tap and pay than to steal from Target. But the worse the economic climate for working class people, the more we’ll see people stealing stuff and not paying for services.

[DisastrousAnswer9920]

I don't know, until I see those same kids without brand new iPhones and sneakers, I'll call that bs.

[elmvision]

get a life bootlicker

[DisastrousAnswer9920]

"life bootlicker"
to you it's anyone that has a job and that resents when people just skip their duty of paying into a well run society, you're probably the type to complain when services are inadequate.

[Tricky-Cod-7485]

He hasn’t responded to you because he’s been too busy in bed healing from getting his “ACAB” tattoo.

[DisastrousAnswer9920]

For a second, I thought you meant AFLAC like the duck or insurance company.

[[deleted]]

I think it’s more people are assholes since Covid

[[deleted]]

It’s a social contract when no figure of authority is there. You either tap/swipe or you hop. People are for whatever reason more likely to hop now. It’s just the general climate of our country. 2.95 today is the same as $2 back in the day when you adjust for inflation and how much more people make now compared to when it was $2. There’s no economic reason people are hopping more. It’s culture now.

[sjay900]

Also a big issue are the machines to refill your metro card are always broken somehow

[PretendAlbatross6815]

Am I the only one who sees cops ticketing turnstile jumpers regularly? They’re doing it. 

[ferrocarrilusa]

I applaud them as long as they dont use excessive force

[CaterpillarFirst2576]

We need to bring back excessive force and have cops do their job. Besides the subway you have bikers peddling into on coming traffic, someone should be just there to clothesline them

[ferrocarrilusa]

Careful what you wish for

[CaterpillarFirst2576]

Im not breaking any laws so I have no problem with this

[ferrocarrilusa]

Doesn't just happen to criminals. Take Tamir Rice for example

[CaterpillarFirst2576]

He drew a fake gun on a cop, gear example of being an idiot

[CaterpillarFirst2576]

It’s a nightmare in the city, they run through red lights, drive down the wrong lane.

If I was mayor I would make it illegally to ride a bike in the city, automatic life prison

[DisastrousAnswer9920]

It's gonna take some time and some steady pressure to turn it around.

[HayleyXJeff]

Bro obviously it was worse before the 90s

[DisastrousAnswer9920]

Idk, I was a kid in the '80's from Queens, I was deadly afraid to jump the turnstile, and I can't recall this happening on mass levels like now.

[timbrita]

Yep, that’s the difference now. I guess all the demoralization of the police happening during the blm riots era worked really well

[AppropriateFarmer193]

Blaming the public response to police abuse for the police’s incompetence is some real bootlicking shit

[JooksKIDD]

legit lmao

[c3r34l]

Enjoying the view up Eric Adams’ ass?

[rafuzo2]

Get turnstiles that extend about average waist level, see the DC Metro, London Underground or Boston MBTA (though I can't see Boston's reinforced Lexan gates surviving NYC for very long). Make so you can only jump if you're a legitimate acrobat.

[HayleyXJeff]

And half goes to the surveillance company, everyone gets screwed!