oyoshimaru t1_j1xx57i wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:17 AM

Reply to comment by simeonbachos in MTA surpasses 1 billion subway riders in 2022, a first in Covid era by geoxol

well theres this article about the subway estimates at 9.8%. what exactly is your argument? do you not ride the subway?

https://nypost.com/2022/05/22/mta-losing-119m-and-counting-to-fare-evasion-officials-say/

edit: wrong link

simeonbachos t1_j1xxeof wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:20 AM

That’s the same article

oyoshimaru t1_j1xxgup wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:21 AM

updated link.

simeonbachos t1_j1xxnkl wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:22 AM

That 9.8% of riders report beating a fare doesn’t mean that 1 in 100 rides out of a billion are stolen. That’s my argument

oyoshimaru t1_j1xxwf7 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:25 AM

thats exactly what it means, that there are 98 million rides stolen out of every 1 billion…

simeonbachos t1_j1xxyfz wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:25 AM

No, riders aren’t rides. I’m one rider, I’m how many rides in a year?

oyoshimaru t1_j1xymwp wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:32 AM

not sure how to make it clearer for you. MTA claimed 62M in subway losses in 1 Quarter of the year. 248M annualized, thats 90M rides in 2021, that apparently had less than. 1B rides, thats higher than 9% of rides.

if you rode the subway youd know how common fare evasion is…