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It is expensive, they wouldnt be able to close off stations at intersections, cause you could just go around via the tracks. Plus they would have to either hire station agents, or more folks in the control center to "man" the gates when people have issues going thru them (if theres no easy way to just walk around them anyways). Clearly, with the open tracks at intersections, a station agent present would help discourage that from happening, but TriMet has no money for actual service delivery workers...so......
One other issue besides the good ones Chad mentioned is that, until electronic fares (if even then) TriMet doesn't have fare media that can be automatically validated at a turnstile. Virtually every enclosed system requires every rider to use a card that machines can read.
It would be extremely expensive to have a supervisor or fare inspector (G4S can't check fares) stand at every single platform entrance to visually check fares. Now they do do this for soccer and basketball games, but there they have an economy of scale--a large number of riders in a small portion of the day.
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It is expensive, they wouldnt be able to close off stations at intersections, cause you could just go around via the tracks. Plus they would have to either hire station agents, or more folks in the control center to "man" the gates when people have issues going thru them (if theres no easy way to just walk around them anyways). Clearly, with the open tracks at intersections, a station agent present would help discourage that from happening, but TriMet has no money for actual service delivery workers...so......
One other issue besides the good ones Chad mentioned is that, until electronic fares (if even then) TriMet doesn't have fare media that can be automatically validated at a turnstile. Virtually every enclosed system requires every rider to use a card that machines can read.
It would be extremely expensive to have a supervisor or fare inspector (G4S can't check fares) stand at every single platform entrance to visually check fares. Now they do do this for soccer and basketball games, but there they have an economy of scale--a large number of riders in a small portion of the day.
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