Enforce the Fares

Another win for the farebox fandom: August saw 29,457 fare checks, similar to the 32k in July. ~1/3 of these were on the northern A Line, where Metro DPS did over 10k fare checks and issued 735😮citations in August, after an initial two week warning period in Jul/Aug. 🎉🙌🎊

Are we going VIRAL on Bluesky?

When LA Metro gave up on collecting and enforcing fares, Jeff Bezos didn't pay the bill. The military didn't pay. The LAPD didn't pay. Caltrans didn't pay. Riders paid, by receiving worse transit service. We pay either way. Might as well make transit better instead of worse.

Fare enforcement is praxis, actually.

Guys, we've graduated from "dark money" to "BIG money"! The lav mic, the $13 web domain hosted on Google Sites, four cardboard signs. This is some big budget stuff!

This is my favorite new advocacy group in LA. Enforce the fares!

Free transit activists love to claim that most (or all) of LA Metro's fare revenue is canceled out by collection costs. It's not true.

That's true. We were there.

Not bad for 10am on a Thursday.

Fare checks are back on the A Line north of DTLA. Advocacy works. Let's keep doing it.

The farebox fandom showed up tonight! And we delivered DPS a rider mandate for systemwide fare enforcement. Shoutout to @moderaterad.bsky.social for calling in.

Do you sometimes wish LA Metro had an advisory committee on public safety that held public listening sessions? Do you wish that one of these sessions would be held tonight, 6pm at Metro HQ, and anyone could attend? Me too. 😔 www.eventbrite.com/e/psac-commu...

LA's fareless transit advocates frequently claim that free Metro service "worked" during covid. No it didn't! It helped degrade onboard conditions to the worst seen in Metro's history and was only possible thanks to reduced ridership and federal covid aid that doesn't exist now.

Fareless transit doesn't redistribute wealth from the rich to the working class. It redistributes transit's inherently finite operating budget away from running service.

Some progressive politicians draw their transit inspiration from countries where transit is better. Others draw inspiration from a random, special agreement-funded business district circulator.

Step 1: Abolish LA Metro's fares. Step 0: Figure out how much the fare is.

LA Metro CX Survey update: The 8 lowest satisfaction issues are all issues of disorder worsened by Metro's abandonment of fare enforcement. (worse than speed, OTP and frequency) The highest satisfaction? Ease of payment, of course! boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

Enforce the Fares is not involved in this litigation effort by the Manhattan Institute, and we were unaware of it before now. While we were in their July City Journal story on LA Metro, we never suggested or encouraged them to pursue the footage of Soza's murder. www.city-journal.org/article/la-m...

POV: You haven't paid for the G Line since 2020 and LA Metro just sent the 'we need to talk' text. 👀 @metrolosangeles.bsky.social is soft launching her ✨fare compliance era✨ and Metro riders' advocacy manifested it.💅 If I were you, I'd TAP that.

LA Metro dejó de hacer cumplir el pago de las tarifas después de 2018. Estamos dándole a Ctrl+Z, y necesitamos tu ayuda.

this, but unironically

In rider surveys, @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's biggest issue is onboard safety. But Metro's most powerful tool to fix that problem is barely being used. That's where we come in!

Our members ride Metro every day and can't wait to apply!

Here's the real reason LA Metro can't go fare-free, no matter how many times we study it.

Joining Metro's Public Safety Advisory Committee is an opportunity to shape Metro's security policy. Apply by Sep 8th to help get Metro security back on track. forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

fare check fact check

Paying for LA Metro is narc behavior. We're trying to change that.

We trot this graph out a lot, and that's because every single LA Metro rider needs to see it. Metro DPS claims they're using a ✨Multilayered Holistic Approach™✨ to improve fare compliance, yet Metro's ~50% evasion rate hasn't budged. Here's the real solution: Make that red line go back up.

The bigger threat of Karen Bass's free fare grift isn't that it would actually happen. It's that we'll be trapped in an eternal Schrodinger's farebox, where no one wants to fix Metro's broken fare collection system because we're always just one more year away from shutting it down.

This is so based. In the Bay Area, they made a fan page to foam the fare enforcement! We gotta bring this vibe to LA.