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Originally Posted by Burninator
I would be very interested to know the number of people who ride the train but do not pay. I know a fair amount of people that use the train every day but haven't bought a ticket in months. In my opinion enforcement of that would be more advantageous to transit. Moochers are making transit worse, because they are using the service (taking up space) but not adding to the cost of it.
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Fare Evasion History 1999-2008
Year Evasion Rate in %
2008 1.9
2007 2.2
2006 1.5
2005 1.5
2004 1.5
2003 1.7
2002 1.4
2001 2.0
2000 2.0
1999 1.1
1998 1.2
http://www.calgarytransit.com/html/statistics.html
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