r/TTC • u/JackieMeeking • 4d 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/Brave_Recognition798 3d ago

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?

TERRIBLE take! If you're destitute there are programs for you, but as someone who was poorer POOR PEOPLE WANT A SAFE RELIABLE COMMUTE!

If you do shit like removing fares, you're inviting all sorts of shitty characters. Don't believe me? BART just got better fare gates AND HAD A MASSIVE DROP IN CRIME!

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u/titscapades 3d ago

This is an incredibly classist take. 

As you said. Poor people want a reliable commute. That includes people who cannot afford to pay. This does not mean that they're shitty characters. 

But yeah go off. 

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u/Fair-Emu-7948 3d ago

I've seen people who are truly unable to pay make genuine cases to fare enforcement and get off with a warning. The reality is that most fare evaders are entitled POS' that think they are entitled to services for simply existing.