Light-rail fare checkers start Monday
Rocky Mountain News
Published February 21, 2007 at midnight
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RTD will begin more rigorous checking for light-rail fare scofflaws next week.
Guards for Wackenhut Security, already providing light-rail security patrols under contract to RTD, are in training this week to learn the types of tickets, passes and other fares. The first crews will be on trains starting Monday.
It will give RTD 43 fare checkers, compared with six today.
Light-rail riders are supposed to carry proof they paid the proper fare, and RTD has traditionally budgeted for 10 employees to check.
RTD has found that about 4.8 percent of riders it checks haven't paid the fare. First- time offenders get warnings, later offenses get the violators a summons to county court.
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