Fare-beaters * USA - Millions, take MTA for an $8 million bus ride
New York,NY,USA -The NY Daily News, by Pete Donohue -March 18, 2010: -- A staggering 6.7 million bus riders a year roll on without paying the fare - shortchanging transit more than $8 million - but they have little reason to fear being nabbed by the cops... The NYPD issued just 101 tickets and arrested just 67 bus fare-beaters in all of 2008, NYPD data show... In 2009, police summonsed or arrested bus fare-beaters 1,826 times - about five a day... For their safety, bus drivers are instructed not to confront fare-beaters. They keep tabs on evasion by clicking a counter every time someone doesn't pay. Transit managers in 2008 told the Daily News that happened approximately 130,000 times a week, or more than 18,000 times a day... The MTA plans to cut bus and subway service to help close a budget gap that ballooned to about $750 million because of cuts to state funding and declining tax revenues, officials have said... (Maisel/News - On the B46 bus in Brooklyn, passengers often walk in through the rear doors without paying. MTA officials say fare-beating costs the city up to $8 million a year)Labels: fare beaters
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