It appears BC’s efforts to better enforce fines for transit fare evaders have yet to yield any results.
It’s been six months since new laws came into effect that, among other things, allowed ICBC to withold renewing your insurance or driver’s licence if you didn’t pay your fine.
ICBC officials say they have put a hold on 583 files, but are unaware of anyone that has actually come in to pay their fine because of it.
Translink spokesman Derek Zabel says that’s because people have three months to appeal their violation, “After 90 days, that information would get forwarded to ICBC. I think that number comes to about six weeks, probably, worth of tickets.”
As for fare dodgers who don’t drive, Zabel says a collection agency has begun to comb through the fines to start tracking people down.
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