Transit cheaters: should we study the problem?

City hall opposition is demanding a study of transit cheating on bus and metro, and – assuming it’s bad – more security to crack down on the phenomenon.

Is this the same opposition demanding an investigation of the violent incident captured on video not long ago when transit security beat up a young man at Villa-Maria?

Looking for links here, I found an opinion piece on Forget The Box, and I agree with the writer’s conclusion: “A safe commute is knowing that the person next to you won’t do you any harm, not that they paid for a ticket or pass. The STM brass needs to realize that fact.”

In other transit news Monday morning: the Journal is annoyed that the STM is refusing to publish monthly performance numbers, and it also reports that of 24 metro escalators slated to be replaced last year, only eight have been done. As one commenter said here recently – what else do you expect of a company called Global Tardif?