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Originally Posted by robocop
I mean I have a feeling a large portion of people don't pay for tickets every single day. If I didn't have a pass from the university I wouldn't either, cheaper to just risk it and pay the fine. If people started fearing getting caught the revenue from people paying for tickets would go up substantially or they'd stop riding altogether. I ride on what must be the busiest trains of the day and there has never been one person checking for tickets, even standing on the platform or something checking wouldn't cost that much. pay someone 20$/hour to stand there and check and you'd definitely get that money back in return. just put them at the 3 or 4 busiest platforms around the city.
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The bolded are subjective and need to be quantified and weighed against each other. This has not been done for Calgary Transit (at least publically), but has been done for similar systems and the answer usually comes back that the costs of doing things like having station attendants is more expensive than the fares they would recoup. Not only that, but it creates a problem where people who live nearby station X that does not get attendants will want the same service that station Y gets.
Only 10-15% of LRT riders access the system by Park and Ride, and 50%+ access it by feeder bus, while the rest either walk, cycle, or are dropped off. That is, 50% are already paying fares or showing passes before they even get to the LRT. Not sure what percentage of the other half will consistenly evade fares, but my guess is it isn't all that high. Probably 10% at most.