Transit Police have stepped up fare checks but the number of tickets they’re writing is down.
230 thousand fare checks were made last month, resulting in 29-hundred tickets.
A year ago in the same month 164-thousand fare checks were made with five-thousand tickets resulting.
Translink Chief Operating Officer Doug Kelsey says it could be that people who cheated the system before are finally paying up, now that officers are focusing more on fare checks.
“We’re trying to raise the visibility up absolutely so you know they’re moving all over the system.”
Translink security are also now able to write tickets and they’re paid an extra five per cent.
About The Reporter
