[kderbyma]

As someone who is not familiar with this transit system, but familiar with my own....this is criminal ... I would have a fit to be charged for not using the service.....

we have a different system. timed tickets....or monthly passes or day passes....wtf is this robbery.

no offense...but this is the opposite of free market principles at work...this is straight extortion

[ribosometronome]

Free market, extortion, and robbery are not exclusive from each other :)

But you're right. Transit like this is rarely the free market at work in the US, though, you're right It's operated by a governmental entity. It's hard to have competing subway systems.