Passengers aren’t paying fares when they board light rail, and it’s starting to worry Sound Transit.
Passengers aren’t paying fares when they board the Link, and it’s starting to worry Sound Transit.
While the ramifications of a years-long pandemic have spiraling effects on the willingness of the public to subsidize light rail with their wallets and riding interest, the board highlighted the effect of simple non-compliance with paying passenger fares. Pre-COVID, those numbers hovered between 19% and 7% . Post-COVID and suspension of citations, those numbers range between 60% and 31%.“[When] we had more stringent enforcement, [evasion] numbers were lower … Now, not as stringent, and the numbers are higher, which is to say that we’re seeing more evasion.”
“I think, rightfully, we don’t want to get people involved in a criminal legal system,” Dave Upthegrove, King County councilmember, added. “At the same time, we have people thumbing their nose and not showing ID according to some of the reports. Finding that approach that is effective is going to be a challenge.”
Regarding those measures, there appeared to be some implied consensus that rate increases are due as adjustments have been postponed because of the pandemic. Rogoff called out that rate increases are better withstood by counties with a high percentage of riders with fares subsidizes by employment.
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