[nfitz]

One area that should also be enforced is transfer validity.

I've certainly heard the fare inspectors on streetcars interrogating and reading the riot act to those with bizarre transfers.

 

[zang]

I've certainly heard the fare inspectors on streetcars interrogating and reading the riot act to those with bizarre transfers.

On the flip side, I saw a woman in her early 20s go full out verbal attack on fare inspectors on the 505 one summer day. She was claiming discrimination against her (non-visible) disability until she was blue in the face, screaming “I’ve tapped, I’ve tapped” and berating the inspector.

I was sitting by the door when she and her friend entered. Neither very clearly tapped, and moved to towards the front of the train when they got on. In fact once fare inspectors boarded, they moved back to the centre of the train to sit in the long-empty blue seats. At which point, her friend reached over and tapped her own card.

The inspectors had been nothing but courteous at this point, even giving her the opportunity to just pay her fare before she eventually got a ticket and told to leave the tram.