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[quote user="Dakguy201"] [quote user="videomaker"] Volunteers will be counting passengers until Fri.,this week may give them a more true account of daily riders... [/quote] "Volunteers counting passengers" implies to me that this is another of the "honor system" ticketing schemes in which only occasionally are passengers asked to provide proof of payment for passage.  Has anyone ever seen any statistics regarding the rate of passenger fare avoidance in these systems?   [/quote] I lived in Melbourne, Australia for nearly five years.  Melbourne has the largest tram system in the southern hemisphere and one of the largest systems in the world.  It uses an honor system.  Several articles in the Melbourne press indicated that upwards of 25 per cent of the riders did not have a valid ticket.  The ticket verifiers frequently encountered hostile push back from riders when they were asked to show their ticket.  It got to the point where the ticket verifiers worked in double pairs. The suburban train system had a modified honor system.  At Flinders Street Station, which is a major suburban train system station near the city center, as well as several other stations, a passenger needed a ticket to get through the turnstiles.  However, at many of the other stations there were no turnstiles.  Accordingly, verifiers rode the suburban trains to check on whether the passengers had a ticket. The light rail system in Dallas, as well as the Trinity Railway Express, uses the honor system.  I have seen several reports indicating that 10 to 15 per cent on the riders on these two systems do not have a ticket.  I have witnesses several occasions when a passenger was not able to produce a ticket on request.  The procedure is or was to allow the passenger to buy a ticket at the next station, thereby holding up the train until he or she was able to do so. It appears that 25 to 50 per cent of the passengers using Capitol Metro Rail connect with the train via a Capitol Metro bus.  Accordingly, they have to have a ticket to get on the bus.
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