Dori: Taxpayers on bigger hook after Sound Transit makes fare evasion even easier

Even if you never board a local light rail train or a Sound Transit bus for the rest of your life, each Puget Sound-area family’s personal share for ST’s total estimated $100 billion cost will run about $125,000, The Dori Monson Show has calculated.

And now, it might cost taxpayers a whole lot more.

With already lax enforcement on rider fares and blatant disregard for paying fares running rampant throughout the region, Thursday night action by the Sound Transit Board will make it even easier to avoid paying fares.

Why the changes? Dori asked KIRO Newsradio transportation specialist Chris “Sully” Sullivan.

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