Dear Editor:
I pay my taxes and I pay my fares, and now I am being asked to subsidize those who don’t.
The need for seeking additional funding for transit expansion is due in part to the loss of revenue from fare evasion.
It is claimed that it would cost more to correct the situation than to allow it to continue. This is nonsense. The bulk of the cost is for equipment and experience in other cities where fare evasion measures have been introduced show that revenues have gone up substantially and more than paid for the investment.
If anyone says this would not be the case in Vancouver, it could only mean that there is something terribly wrong with the way transit is run here.
The foot-dragging over installing/operating turnstiles has already cost the city hundreds of millions.
Why should we have to pay more for the inefficiency of those in charge?
Fred Bruhn
North Vancouver
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