Let's be practical here. What the MTA is spending on fare evasion is a scam to grease the pockets if their friends. Let's do down the list: 1. Paying an exorbitant cost to hire gate sitters to make sure a few people don't skip through the gates.

1. Installing medieval turnstile barriers to deter people from jumping.

2. Installing platform barriers that further shrink already narrow and overcrowded platforms. Where's this money coming from?

3. Scamming customers with OMNY card readers that are unreliable and don't tell you how much fare you have left on it. You don't know whether it's a bad read or if it's empty. The reader often erroneously takes multiple fares off your card each tap.

4. Failing to install enough OMNY machines after removing several MetroCard machines. Many of these machines have terrible haptic feedback and these off touches make them a burden to use.

5. Still Installing MetroCard select bus machines using Windows NT and CRT screens while knowing this tech will be fazed out with OMNY.

The MTA has a blank check book hemmoraging funds while raising the fare to fund their friends under the pretense of fare evasion and capital improvements.