{"id":377212426,"date":"2016-12-14T21:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=377212426"},"modified":"2016-12-14T21:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:13:46","slug":"ignoring-fare-evaders-can-make-mass-transit-faster-and-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=377212426","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring Fare Evaders Can Make Mass Transit Faster\u2014And Richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By AARIAN MARSHALL, Wired<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nSo the enterprising Norwegians had an idea: Don\u2019t just ditch the malfunctioning hardware. Ditch the turnstiles and gates altogether, along with the idea of physical barriers that demand payment.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not so radical. By nixing fare gates, public transit agencies emphasize ease of access over making every last rider pay. Europe got into \u201cproof of payment\u201d systems\u2014where wandering personnel request evidence you paid your way\u2014in the 1960s. They made it to American shores, mostly in light rail systems, by the 1990s.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/12\/ignoring-fare-evaders-can-make-mass-transit-faster-richer\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AARIAN MARSHALL, Wired &#8230; So the enterprising Norwegians had an idea: Don\u2019t just ditch the malfunctioning hardware. Ditch the turnstiles and gates altogether, along with the idea of physical barriers that demand payment. It\u2019s not so radical. By nixing fare gates, public transit agencies emphasize ease of access over making every last rider pay. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=377212426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ignoring Fare Evaders Can Make Mass Transit Faster\u2014And Richer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377212426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377212426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377212426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377212426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377212426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377212426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377212426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}