[wilg]

13% of subway riders and 45% of bus riders don't pay the fare.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-31/nyc-s-tra...

Also, turnstiles are not barbaric, what are you talking about?

Also since when is the rule that "the 'best' way has to be free"?

[elthran]

Londoner here - with our fare evasion stats at this link

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa...

None of the articles I've seen ever seen to address why NYC has such a high rate of fare evasion. Is it just an ingrained "cultural" thing now? You could definitely jump over the TfL barriers if you wanted to, but no one does

[wilg]

A very good question! No clue. I do see weirdos on Twitter defending it for dumb reasons, but that can't account for it all.