Transit police officers started issuing warnings Tuesday. Ticketed enforcement will begin in November, transit officials say.
The enforcement campaign, which extends systemwide, began Tuesday with transit police officers being told to issue
Local officials, who have grown frustrated over a train shortage stemming from the suspension of half of Metro’s rail car fleet, have asked Metro to police fare evasion more effectively to demonstrate the agency is doing its part to keep revenue. The move will also show Maryland and Virginia officials the agency is providing equal treatment across its 91 rail stations, trains and buses.
A Metro report earlier this year showed Metrobus riders skipped paying a fare on 34 percent of trips, a percentage that had doubled during the pandemic. The transit agency said 17 percent of bus trips were unpaid between July and the end of December 2019.Metrobus operators do not enforce fares, according to a bus operator training manual. After attacks on bus operators over the years, the transit agency told drivers to leave fare enforcement to transit police.
Metro will have the ability to “actually issue citations,” Clarke said, indicating legal issues that held Metro back had been resolved. He said the D.C. government is printing the tickets. “Nothing is free, but we could have free fares. That is a policy decision this region could make and decide to fund,” he said. “My job is to run the system as it is, and right now fare revenue accounts for a component of our revenue to run the system.”
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