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The Issue: The MTA’s $1 million plan to understand the psychology of fare evaders.
The only way to stop fare beating is enforcement. Without rules, you have anarchy (“Fare-ly stupid,” Dec. 14).
One way for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to increase ridership is to provide people with something to show for the constant price increases — safer, cleaner and on-time services.
There will be no need to bike, or in some cases use a car. Hence, no need for congestion pricing.
Right now, bikes give some commuters a safer way to travel. Improve the system, and they will come back.
Second, let’s stop lining the pockets of MTA executives. You should only get a raise for a job well done, which doesn’t seem to be the case at the moment. If ridership goes up, your salary goes up — it’s that simple.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
Spending money to study why riders jump turnstiles is another example of the insanity swirling inside the MTA.
We need to send this agency to the Department of Government Efficiency. They could trim the MTA’s fat while remodeling it into a self-sustainable entity.
Donathan Salkaln
Manhattan
Reduce the fare and the fare beaters who do it for sport or for the challenge may not find it as rewarding to save $1 instead of $2.90.
For those who are fiscally challenged, a $1 fare would also be more affordable.
Myron Rushetzky
Woodside
During the Lindsay administration, officers were put on overtime riding the cars. NYPD was tasked with providing an officer at the elevated stations.
The token clerks felt secure and were happy to see the officers, as were the riders.
Daily take at the booths increased. Crime and quality-of-life infractions reduced. The problem was fixed then, and it can be fixed again.
Billy Rath
Brick, NJ
Congratulations to The Post on uncovering the MTA’s harebrained scheme, led by hustler CEO Janno Lieber, to waste a cool $1 million of the taxpayers’ money for a study on why people evade the subway fare.
Just go to the 59th St.- Lexington Ave. station in Manhattan at 3 p.m. any weekday. You’ll be run over by fare beaters, mostly high school students, hurtling over the turnstiles.
These kids don’t learn anything in school, so why should they play by the rules elsewhere? They know they won’t be arrested by the current criminal-justice system.
Urban planner Jane Jacobs once pointed out that any urban society that jettisons the values that have given it confidence, adaptability and identity will become weak and eventually collapse.
Looks like we’re now all riding the A-train to anarchy.
Ron Spurga
Manhattan
Evidently, common sense is not too common when it comes to the MTA.
Why spend $1 million on the motivations of the fare evaders when the answer is fairly obvious? It’s simply because they get away with it.
Frank Brady
Yonkers
Gov. Kathy Hochul decided to institute congestion pricing for anyone who drives into Manhattan south of 60th Street so that the MTA can spend $1 million to study why people jump the turnstile?
This is what happens when you elect low-intelligence politicians.
Dan Gardner
Staten Island
The transportation system should be free and paid for by both the state and city from any wasteful funds in their budgets.
This would both address the fare beaters and serve the public.
Max Leifer
Manhattan
Those masterminds at the MTA paid $1 million to study the causes of turnstile jumping.
This is the perfect example of quasi-government people with no common sense, but with buckets of masters degrees.
Tom Cutrofello
Woodside
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