The Case for Fare Enforcement

Transit systems need the rules to matter

I used to believe that fare collection was a barrier to good transit service.

The belief was appealing for its counter-intuitiveness; like many people, I’m a sucker for ‘Slate-pitch’ contrarianism, that considers the common-sense view and argues that, Well Actually, the truth is the opposite. That argument, applied to fare collection, went like this.

The …