There's nothing quite like seeing a thread full of people gloating about evading POP fare inspectors to remind me how stupid POP fare collection is
Which isn't to say that the fare hikes CAUSED the growth in ridership, only that they weren't beyond the capacity of riders to pay
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If you're struggling with money, paying a single fare isn't so much of an issue as how *often* you can pay it, and therefore how often you can actually travel. This is very much a problem for the poor in places without transit; if gas goes up they're stuck having to drive less.
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But that's sort of inherent in being poor--you can't do as much as you would like to. Antipoverty measures like welfare etc that give them more money to work with is more helpful than setting transit fares so low that it puts its future into the hands of ppl who don't ride it
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