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Originally Posted by GGG
No it’s moronic because people who don’t follow the no drug use rules and don’t follow the paying to use the train rules aren’t going to follow the no jumping over the turnstile rule.
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I think that would be fairly likely to improve fare collection though. When I was younger and dumber I sometimes didn't buy a pass. Commuting downtown during rush hour they rarely came in the cars to check. And when they did it was trivial to avoid them. Stand in the middle and casually move to the other end whenever they did enter. 100% of the time they caught someone else before getting to me.
They use those checks to generate the statistics on how many people are paying, but they're a deeply flawed sampling mechanism. People who have paid don't avoid the checks and people who haven't do, so the sample is inherently biased.
For the problem we're discussing though probably the solution would be to have transit cops at every station, and kick people doing drugs out of the stations.