LA metro’s North Hollywood station has seen a 40% drop in violent incidents since launching the “Tap to Exit” program to target fare evaders.
Nearly two months since the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority began requiring subway riders to tap their cards in and out of the North Hollywood station, the number of violent incidents dropped over 40%, officials said.
The “Tap to Exit” pilot, which started on May 28 with the goal of ensuring that everyone pays for each subway ride, is now being considered to be a permanent program at the station before expanding across the transit system, according to Stephen Tu, Deputy Executive Officer of Station Experience with the LA Metro.
The transit agency has also increased station staff, including ambassadors, law enforcement officers and transit security guards.“Nothing is more important that we're working on here than the safety of our customers and our employees here in the Metro system,” Tu explained.Many Metro commuters at the North Hollywood station agreed that they have begun to notice changes in their daily rides since the program launched.
“There haven't been a lot of aggressive people and not so much trash as well,” Veronica Avalos, who uses the B line subway, said.“Since the pandemic up until now is kind of like 50-50 with whether or not you're going to get something crazy going on. Ever since they've changed it, it's gotten a lot better,” he observed.“They need more guards to ride the train with us,” Dominique Balard, a Metro rider, said.
Metro officials continued to encourage riders to report any instance of people not paying their fare or any suspicious activity to transit authorities. I spent about $1,000 to see Taylor Swift in Paris instead of the U.S. and it was absolutely worth the moneyMom of 18-year-old with a doctorate shares her 4 non-negotiable parenting rules: ‘How can they be the best versions of themselves?'
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