Tuesday, February 28, 2006
That's the civic spirit
Oh noes!
A brief survey by Muni at four locations found more than 50 percent of riders jumped on its vehicles without plunking down the fare — numbers that stunned city officials and again raised problems with fare collection at the cash-strapped agency.
Muni officials were quick to caution the figures were a "snapshot" that do not represent the system as a whole, claiming the overall fare-evasion rate on the system is actually between 10 percent and 20 percent. The transit agency loses roughly $16 million to $24 million a year in unpaid fares, officials said.
The reason given for the 10-20% number: "More politically acceptable." (Actually, no reason was given, but that seems to be the idea) That's some fine studying, folks. You wonder why they even bother to do the surveys if they're just going to toss the data if it doesn't agree with what they want to hear.
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