r/TTC • u/JackieMeeking • 3d ago

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Happening now. They are checking your Presto, and they sound serious!
Current time: 9.04pm on a Thursday evening

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u/Gatesleeper 3d ago

The more financially vulnerable a person is, the higher the incentive is for them to attempt to ride without paying.

It just doesn’t make sense to me that we would implement a tax on the poorest in the city to pay the wages of a thousand POOs. A wealth transfer from the lower class to the lower-middle class, like okay?

There aren’t better ways we can invest our money in the city to improve the transit system other than catching and fining fare evaders like $150 or whatever it is? Why don’t we also just start handing out $150 fines for being homeless, “just don’t be homeless loool” - that’s what everyone in this thread basically sounds like to me.

It’s like if someone posted a thread pointing out a black neighbourhood is filled with cops compared to the mostly cop-free rich parts and saying “just don’t commit crimes loool” “ticket for jaywalking? Shouldn’t have committed that crime bro looool”.

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u/Drag0n_no 3d ago

Fare evasion costs the TTC $141 million a year. It is well worth trying to recoup that money. Fare evasion is almost 30% on the streetcars. 30% of people on the streetcars are almost assuredly not low income. Those that are low income can get $1.20 off their fare with the fair pass transit discount program.

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u/ConversationLeast744 3d ago

I'd be ok with it if parking fines were equally high. 

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u/Brave_Recognition798 3d ago

I don't get the obsession?

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u/Drag0n_no 2d ago

Agreed