The F5 button should summon a police car where the evader is taken off the bus and given a ticket at the next stop.
Repeat offenders get called in to the judge to explain themselves.
Ruin their day AND make everyone else wait, and the problem will take care of itself. No one has common sense anymore.
Your idea is super! But The police claim they can’t handle the number of calls it would generate. And they also claim there are more important crimes for them to work on. And so forth. I think if your idea were implemented, the number of fare evasions would go way down. Oh yeah, the police and the transit agencies will also argue that stopping service for arresting passengers will cause service delays - and endanger other passengers. Those arguments I don’t have answers for
> The F5 button should summon a police car where the evader is taken off the bus and given a ticket at the next stop. <
Let me tell you how stupid I am. When the article first mentioned the F5 button, I just assumed it was a call-police button. And it turns out that the F5 button is just a counter.
“The F5 button should summon a police car where the evader is taken off the bus and given a ticket at the next stop.”
That won’t work because NYPD doesn’t have enough radio cars or cops to man them for that kind of an effort. Besides, the fights to get the fare evaders off the busses would ruin their schedules. Just equip the busses with an arm that is activated to let the passenger onto the bus after his fare is paid.
How about summoning a NINJA robot to shock them?
Wouldn't want to be that bus driver the next day when the same, now pi$$ed off fare-beater gets on the bus and wants to settle things.