This morning on Axios DC:
Metro fixed its fare evasion problem on trains, and now they are focusing on the 70% of bus riders who don’t pay. That eye-popping rate is up from 17% pre-pandemic.
Yowza. There is more at WaPo. Kids and I take the metro bus to school from time to time and I can confirm that:
- School children in general don’t use their free ride cards. It improves the flow of people and drivers don’t seem to care.
- More than half of the adults just waltz in as well. That too improves the flow of traffic, and drivers don’t seem to care about that either.
A head-scratcher, that.