The John Locke Foundation has an interesting article about Charlotte’s light rail system. We had discussed here previously that the system’s failure to collect fares from riders reliably led to people like the killer of Iryna Zarutska vicariously riding the trains and finding victims upon whom to prey.
Charlotte’s transit system had to make a choice. It could install permanent fare-collecting systems that would require a large initial capital outlay for infrastructure but minimal annual operating expenses. Or it could hire a bunch of people to work the trains and stations to assure fares are paid which would require minimal initial capital outlay but enormous annual expenses.
The transit system chose the latter approach. It is a bad decision because the long term expenses will be higher. Also, future leaders of the system might feel the urge to reduce the number of people working the trains thereby sabotaging security.
You can count on blue jurisdictions governing unwisely.
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