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Re: How do OMNY card users prove they paid SBS fares? |
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Posted by r17-6599 on Mon Mar 3 00:25:18 2025, in response to Re: How do OMNY card users prove they paid SBS fares?, posted by AlM on Sun Mar 2 20:14:13 2025. Of course the rear door is "meant" for egress, but both doors are used for that purpose, regardless of what the automated announcement says. Or the signs posted within the bus.Similarly, entering via the front is the norm, but being NYC, that's not the case. People rush in, grabbing all the seats, 40 foot or 60 foot buses. The driver "supposedly" is to monitor fare payments, as in the old days, when people didn't feel "entitled" to ride free, but you know as well as I, they won't get involved. If they did, the driver would be so busy with fare beaters, bus would never move. BTW, some time ago, the MTA issued a memo to drivers to not open the rear doors. Riders had to use the front to enter and exit. Time consuming, yes it was. Did the drivers heed the memo, most did not. Did people still enter without paying, yes they did. As for checking fare card payment with readers carried by inspectors, the technology is there. Case in point, a person in Queens was accused of a crime. His lawyer won the case by proving the client wasn't at the crime scene by calling up the record of his client's Metro card, which showed all the transactions and fare payments, including time and bus routes used during the time of the said crimes. Can the MTA's inspectors do this? Perhaps, but they seem only to monitor SBS lines, if at all. |
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