Bad neighbors make more fences
“Virtually every criminal is a fare evader,” the head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. The new, higher (and uglier) faregates stand today as a memorial to their cities’ decline. For decades, D.C. and New York didn’t need unhoppable gates because only a small sliver (of mostly high schoolers) dodged the fares.
- ▪“Virtually every criminal is a fare evader,” the head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.
- ▪The new, higher (and uglier) faregates stand today as a memorial to their cities’ decline.
- ▪For decades, D.C. and New York didn’t need unhoppable gates because only a small sliver (of mostly high schoolers) dodged the fares.
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| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0000 |
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After the woke Era made social-justice heroes out of turnstile-hoppers, subway systems from New York and Washington, D.C. to San Francisco shelled out millions to build higher gates that only the most ambitious and athletic thieves could evade with ease.Surprising nobody, these more formidable faregates resulted in more fare revenue. They also resulted in less crime. “Virtually every criminal is a fare evader,” the head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. Recommended Stories YOUR LAND: Your local elementary school is about to close Man’s not so best friend Unintentional or on purpose, California can’t keep the lights on This is almost a happy story demonstrating to local governments that, as the millennial commentators like to say, “You can just do things.” You can…
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