TAP to Exit now being implemented at North Hollywood Station 

I'm not American so I didn't even know some metro stations around the world DON'T do tap to exit. That's how it is in my country

Love how you used Metro sounds as Censor sounds😂

There are scientist Jessiker is here. We have studied due too Fare Capping $1.75 last an hour 1/2 if fare amount is exactly. But more Money on Card faster to tap to next Train or bus add up to $5 day Pass. Now Tap to exit will make it more faster to add up 1.75 to exit to make to Far capping $5 more Faster. You can Trust Me I know and Happy Metro safety month

Was I the only one who saw the guy just blatantly stepped over the fare barrier? 😂

I cant wait for NYC to do this it needs to be done ASAP.

How about making it easier to pay for multiple people , having to buy multiple cards is crazy annoying

don't listen to the idiots who say mEtRo sHoUlD bE fReE. this is a great first step in making sure only customers going about their day are on the system.

This is huge

what rider said they want more fare compliance programs lol

I WANT TO SEE 24/7 performers in the train running up and down doing flips

This is also really good for science people like myself because it collects data on linked trips. O-D passenger surveys would be made obsolete.

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More ambassadors please. I've seen them de-escalate more times in the past year than I've ever seen security or police do in the past 10 since I started regularly riding LA Metro. When I ride in the later evenings I feel a lot safer when there are also ambassadors on the train there with me. Police will look me dead in the eye and do nothing while people are getting harassed by individuals that are clearly unwell. Plus this won't do anything for aboveground light rail. People don't jump turnstiles, they go through the emergency exits. Anyone that has ridden the system for more than a day should know this. Make the LIFE program permanent and unlimited and make it so people can use their EBT cards as a TAP card. Run trains every 5 mins or better, and make the underground stations bright as hell, closer to the Regional Connector ones. Lot of the B and D line stations have lighting from what feels like the late 80s. Light that shit up dog.

huh? it's their first time to tap to enter/exit the metro? I thought the American public transport system was advanced.

This is not what Los Angeles needs, nor what it wants. First, the metro spends $40 million on fair evasion alone (source: npr) while generating roughly $106 million in fair-based revenue (source: statista). If I'm reading this correctly, we spend nearly half of our revenue fighting fair evasion. And that is nothing to do with the infrastructure and maintenance for fair collection (ticket booths, turn stiles, servers and devs, policing, etc). I believe we could spend that $40 million on something more important such as late night trains, more frequent trains, bathrooms in stations, more cleaning staff, etc. Secondly, and more existentially, LA has a goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. I don't believe we can achieve that already distant goal by increasing barriers to lower carbon transit alternatives. With rising uncertainty in gas prices, increased traffic fatalities, and the rising cost of car ownership generally, I believe it's important for the city to provide alternative modes of transit. If the first thing you hear when researching LA metro is rising costs, you're less likely to consider riding, which will lead to reduced ridership and ultimately a slower growth (or possibly recession) in fair collection as a whole. Finally, I view public transit as a service and I believe services should be funded by tax dollars for the sake of sociatal benefit. Free/cheap public transit in low cost neighborhoods has shown time and time again to be the single best way to reduce wealth inequality. I ride the metro in LA almost every day, and I want to see it improve as a service. Saying nonsense like "well every other city collects fairs on the way out" is the same as your mother asking "well if all your friends jumped off a bridge." It's a poor excuse to start a program and I sincerely hope the organizers of this recognize the harm that fair collection does to public transit. NYC is a perfect example where more policing of fair evasion simply leads to more people skirting the system. Fair evasion is competition, not theft. If the service isn't good enough for people to want to pay, then the price is wrong or the service isn't good enough. $40 million a year is enough waste. Let's put that to a stop, not accelerate it.

We have that in Seattle I don’t stop nothing. This is a waste of time and money.

And a big one for everyone listening, If you see someone skip fair, no you didn't.

It it ain’t floor to ceiling lift be jumped, more tax money down the drain

We don't want or need this. We want functioning elevators and escalators at every station, more ambassadors who provide real help to those who need it, and fewer cops. Day 1 I already saw a major flaw in this system when the one non-turnstile gate was broken at Hollywood/Highland as I arrived on bike. If that gate was still busted on my way home, I wouldn't have had a valid tap on my card and I'd be stuck. The basic infrastructure of Metro is not reliable enough to impose tap to exit anywhere within the system.

Introducing, the one and only, Stephen Tu aka the corrupted LA Metro official!

Where’s the fentanyl dealers everywhere? Doesn’t look like the noho station I know and love…

Literally no one asked for this. We ask for working, on time, reliable trains and elevators for disabled riders. Not anti-homeless benches and anti-single-mom-who-works-two-jobs-she-loves-her-kids-and-doesnt-need-to-worry-about-giving-three-dollars-each-way-to-a-multi-million-dollar-corporation fares

I think it is BS

Just like on ig, this isn't what we're asking for. We're fighting for free and affordable public transit. Tapping go exit does nothing considering, if I've already paid and rode, you can't fine someone for not checking out. I'll be doing my part in skipping the tap out