Quote Originally Posted by stasu1213 View Post
My criticism is that a person could hop on the Q without paying. There is no turnstile or gate that has a slot to put a card in to open or turn to allow a rider through. The people mover has one. The stations are too open for anyone to jump on the train.
I think everyone agrees that people should pay the fare, but numbers-wise, the money spent on fare collection would cost more than the unpaid fares themselves. It's not intuitive but it's how many things involving fares are.

In this article about the People Mover it's mentioned that it would cost less money to simply remove the fare equipment and make the People Mover free than it would be to update the equipment to be compatible with a regional transit card.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ine/971089001/