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Re: Fare Beaters..what's the driver SUPPOSED To do? |
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Posted by Brooklyn67 on Sat Jun 2 02:51:59 2012, in response to Re: Fare Beaters..what's the driver SUPPOSED To do?, posted by B1bus on Sat Jun 2 02:26:46 2012. I'm not familiar with the route you mention nor the agency/company which operates it, but I'm sure each agency has their own policy regarding fare payment and how, if at all, it's to be enforced. I speak from the vantage point of a NYCTA driver only.However, I have had countless similar instances and couldn't have cared any less about the name, age or gender that was on a card. Most of the time, folks who presented a Medicare card displayed only the very top of it, where I could see only the blue and red stripes. When they did, I laughed to myself, knowing it wasn't their card or was a photocopy or an expired card, or any other invalid form of "proof". Made zero difference to me. They presented a card and that was that. I'll tell you though -- back in the "old days" before the Metrocard, people would try and pass off almost anything as a "transfer". I've taken Rite Aid receipts, construction paper and who knows what else (who can remember? lol). As long as they recognized the fact that they had to give me something, and acknowledged the fact I was there doing a job, all was right with the world. It was only when the occasional fare-beat would walk on and ignore my existence that I may have had something to say :-) Realistically though, as long as you respected the fact I was sitting in the seat, you rode my bus. 99.9% of the time I didn't want to hear the sob story du-jour. From me, you got a smile, a wave and a "Ga head". |
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