Sound Transit has been working for more than three years to improve its fare enforcement system. It is trying to strike a balance between collecting fares and not financially burdening those who cannot pay to ride with court dates and collections fees, issues that can impact credit scores, complicate rental applications, and cause other problems.
But does any of this matter? Sound Transit no longer has mechanisms in place to check I-D’s and track who isn’t paying in the first place with their decision to remove law enforcement from the fare enforcement process.
The new policy increases the number of warnings to two over a 12-month period. A third
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