When confronted with mass fare evasion on public transit, many city leaders throw up their hands. Some argue that fare evasion shouldn’t be a crime, that enforcing laws against fare evasion is racist, and that transit should be free to use anyway.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, under general manager and CEO Randy Clarke, took a different approach. In office since 2022, Clarke has made cracking down on fare evasion a priority for the D.C. Metrorail system, and he has gotten results.
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