Has this actually started? I’ve been taking buses in this state for 5 years, they only ever glance at the ticket on my phone.

Hot take: If you live within 1 mile of light rail/rapid transit or 10 miles of heavy rail you should be taxed 1.5% of your income + capital gains.

Yea, richer you are, the more you should pay.

And 50% of that money should be dedicated towards transit outside of metro areas.

I don't even activate them until asked.

World class public transit systems aren't free anywhere in the world

You need fares to fund high service levels

Pushes for fare free transit are good in theory but in reality, the charge cars part will fail to pass and the end result will be lower service

You can do all that PLUS Bob White Counter in under an hour? Surely only if you've called ahead...

Do the crime 2x, pay the fine 2x

$70 Two or three years ago. My friend had gone five years before she got caught.

you guys are paying??

I'm guilty of just buying one zone bus tickets

Did something similar once.

Brought a 3-Zone Interstate off the app, activated it (valid for one hour).

Boarded a bus from Weehawken to NYC, went to an Arby's nearby, and still had plenty of time to catch the 119 home.

Worth the $4.50

Our taxes are crazy enough already. Would be nice tho

That’s why removing the pretend budgetary constraints will help.

Just one teeny tiny problem. They already have money. Like lots. And yet charge the riders. And yet have terrible service.

If you have the NJ Transit app, just have a ticket already purchased in your account and not activated & whenever you see the conductor/checker checking for tickets (this has happened to me probably 4 out of 100 times I’ve taken the Light Rail), activate the ticket that’s already in your account. I’ve had the countdown timer at over 1 minute and the conductor/checker accepted it and moved on to the next passenger. I think their mindset is “they have some sort of ticket at least, there’s a lot more passengers to check”. Safe travels!

Looking it up I guess delta 8. They work for me though

Delta-9 THC gummies? Or delta-8?

Hot take: all public transit should be publicly subsidized aka free (charge personal cars in order to subsidize frequent, safe, and reliable transit and no one will want to drive).

Oh right, I’ve never used the app for light rail, I get it though.

What’s the fine for fare evasion. Bc it honestly seems like it’s worth the risk considering how rarely they check

I buy (and in theory activate) my tickets in the NJT app, so only a countdown timer with no indication of starting station.

A job and a jab, the new Lucky's special?

Wait. Y’all be buying Light Rail tickets?

technically they could probably work out that you did this. if you're going in the return direction, then your ticket would show it was validated at a station that the train in that direction would not have arrived at yet.

yooo I do that occasionally too but now they might want us to start using the validation thingy on some of these buses 😭

Transit Police boarded HBLR about 3 weeks ago around 4:30 PM on a Friday. 80% of riders in my railcar got issued a ticket. In NYC, fair evasion is a misdemeanor, which means violators can be arrested and booked. https://nyc-fare-evasion.csail.mit.edu/