TAP is coming in March to the Big Blue Bus!
Freshly posted to the Big Blue Bus website: TAP is coming to Santa Monica Big Blue Bus! Starting March 2015, you can pay with Stored Value, an EZ transit pass on [continue reading]
Video from the Orange Line media event on stopping fare evasion
And here’s the video from yesterday’s media event on the Orange Line to promote new efforts to thwart fare evasion along the busway. Here’s the news release.
Metro and LASD target fare evasion on the Orange Line
Here’s the news release from Metro: To reduce fare evasion on the Orange Line, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) Transit Services Bureau (TSB) have joined in a two-pronged effort to improve communication and enforce laws requiring riders to buy [continue reading]
Metro enforcement cuts Orange Line fare evasion
Fare evasion has fallen sharply on the Orange Line since December and beefed up enforcement is credited with a 45 percent increase in the number of riders who pay fares and tap their TAP cards at validators before boarding the bus, according to Metro officials. Metro conducted three fare enforcement [continue reading]