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MTA wasting $1M to study ‘psychology’ of fare beaters — as agency cries poverty, pushes for congestion pricing
NY Post ^ | 12-13-24 | Aneeta Bhole

Posted on 12/13/2024 4:48:57 PM PST by dynachrome

hey’re bending over backwards to waste cash on turnstile jumping.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to spend up to $1 million in federal grant money on a study they hope will help them understand the mindset of the average fare evader, The Post has learned.

The pricy research – which comes as the authority is crying poverty and pushing for a detested congestion pricing plan — is being blasted by critics as a huge waste that will only tell them what anyone with common sense already knows about scofflaws.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: graft; mta; newyork; pooroldcharlie
"congestion pricing plan"

The real thieves step in.

1 posted on 12/13/2024 4:48:57 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Sorry, I meant to put New York in the title.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 4:50:50 PM PST by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: dynachrome

In Pittsburgh, you pay when you get on going in and when you get off going out. The downtown area is free.

Presumably, it lowers need for parking and having a car in the downtown area in the first place.


3 posted on 12/13/2024 4:58:00 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: dynachrome

The MTA fare is $2.90 per trip and the cost of housing a fare evader at Rikers Island is $1,500 per day.

Sure, you can arrest and jail fare evaders, but that will cost you far more than the loss of a fare evasion.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 5:05:57 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: dynachrome

“Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to spend up to $1 million in federal grant money on a study they hope will help them understand the mindset of the average fare evader”

.

Hey, for a million bucks not only will I tell them what’s wrong with their system, I’ll make a pass by the local hot spots and find a few girls so I can take them to Jackson Hole or Sugarloaf and research why girls like sky resorts.

I’m generous that way you know.

.


5 posted on 12/13/2024 5:15:52 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: dynachrome

What do you expect when your business model focuses on a clientele who can’t afford to take a taxi?


6 posted on 12/13/2024 5:35:40 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: dynachrome

They do not want to pay, know they can get away with it and are basically dishonest.

Do you think New York will pay me a million for my psychological profile of them?


7 posted on 12/13/2024 6:34:04 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Round Earther

So don’t jail them. Fine them enough to discourage them.


8 posted on 12/13/2024 7:31:02 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: dynachrome

LOL!

“. . . the average fare evader . . . “ jumps the turnstile because he/she CAN jump the turnstile!

All the metro folks need is unjumpable turnstiles!

It is not rocket science!

Use the grant money to install unjumpable turnstiles!

Pay workers rather than “experts!”


9 posted on 12/13/2024 8:24:13 PM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: Taxman

Agreed.
Replace turnstyles with
revolving gates. No
token,no turn.Two in one
space gets immediate
attention. (the gate locks
in it’s rotation until the
“jumper” is held accountable)
Place the token box inside the gate. Pay to escape as
it were.


10 posted on 12/14/2024 12:25:17 AM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: dynachrome

Ooh, spend $1 million studying Walmart thieves next!!

WHAT makes them steal???

It’s very mysterious!!


11 posted on 12/14/2024 4:43:07 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Lean-Right

Great idea!


12 posted on 12/14/2024 6:03:35 AM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: maro

Ok don’t jail them. Just bare back cane them in public. 50 hard seats should do it. Do it immediately where the infraction occurs.


13 posted on 12/14/2024 7:17:12 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Seats should be swats


14 posted on 12/14/2024 7:18:08 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dynachrome

MUSK & VIVEK have fertile ground to clean up.


15 posted on 12/14/2024 8:19:11 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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