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Re: LACMTA committee votes for subway barrier gates |
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Posted by WillD on Thu Jan 17 23:42:45 2008, in response to LACMTA committee votes for subway barrier gates, posted by Easy on Thu Jan 17 23:20:38 2008. Huh? They're losing 5.5 million dollars to farebeaters, spending 7 million dollars on inspectors, and then are going to spend 12.2 million dollars on maintaining these gates? So only 300,000 dollars will go toward paying back the purchase cost of the gates which should take around 188 years (or they'll pay off about 1/10th of their purchase cost when they're retired in 20 years). I'd say you're right, gox forbid they don't completely eliminate farebeaters, it could head toward 500 years pretty quick. Christ, why not increase the number of fare inspectors and shell out around 10 million dollars a year? You'd save the 56.4 million dollars for the gates, reduce farebeating, and still save money every year relative to the faregates. |
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