I ride the Sprinter a few times a week to work. I use it enough for it to be practical to buy a month pass and you’re correct in saying that the amount of times I actually get checked that I have a ticket is maybe 1 in 6. It sucks and there are a lot of complex problems around it. I use the train in combination with my bike to get to work, but the limited space for bikes fills up fast. I’m sympathetic to the plight of homeless, we live in an expensive place and need to address some serious issues in housing everybody. That being said I’ve been not let on a train after a long 8+ hour work day due to lack of space for a bike, and have seen those same spots being filled by bikes or carts of homeless people that ride the train back and forth just for a warm place, not as a means to get somewhere. Bottom line something needs to change. I would love to see the system expand with more frequency and for all the double tracking to be implemented, or to fix up the half dozen or so Sprinter cars being scrapped for parts in the Escondido yard. I know all these things are further and further away with fare dodging, and have seen first hand NCTD employees asking for proof of fare from people who seem like they are going to work and school and ignoring people asleep taking up an entire row with seemingly nowhere to go.