The Seattle light rail took the top spot in the U.S. for ridership in April, according to Axios Seattle. While light rail and streetcar ridership totaled 4.8 million trips in the Seattle area, KIRO host John Curley pointed to a lack of fare enforcement.
Curley provided his own idea for enforcing fares on the light rail: No standing allowed, and only seats that fold down with a ticket.
“Imagine this on a bus, you get on the bus, you got your little stupid card that you paid for, and you swipe it, or you touch onto something, and then the seat folds down, and you can sit down,” he explained on “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio. “There’s no standing, zero standing. It’s only the seats. So, if you get on and you don’t have a little card, whoop, there’s no place for you to sit — whoosh, out the back.”
Paid seats better than turnstiles for light rail fare enforcement?
Curley said his idea is better than spending money on turnstiles that people jump over…