MTA looks to redesign subway turnstiles to crack down on rampant fare beating
to patrol fare machines and turnstiles, increased NYPD enforcement and behind-the-scenes collaboration with local prosecutors, Lieber said.Prosecutors across 13 counties also need to have the same approach to fare evasion enforcement, Lieber said. That hasn’t happened yet.
“We are working with DAs on this. We want to have a consensus fare evasion enforcement policy,” Lieber said. “There’s no secret there’s ideological range in some of our New York City and suburban DAs.”NYPD fare enforcement, meanwhile, jumped 97% this year compared with last, NYPD Transit Bureau Chief Jason Wilcox said last week.
Lieber has claimed transit criminals are “overwhelmingly” fare beaters, though he hasn’t provided statistics to back that up.Fare beaters accounted for 29.3% of bus riders during July, August and September, according to the MTA — up from 29.1% during the first three months of the year. Subway fare evasion also rose, according to data: 9.8% of riders were deadbeats at the end of 2021. According to the most recent survey, 13.4% of riders now do the same.
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