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jacquesm • today at 12:38 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

That's a different problem, and it requires a solution by itself.

> You let people evade fares and then those people go onto stab people like Zarutska.

That has nothing to do with it. The guy that committed that murder wasn't going to be deterred by a ticket fee. But it is interesting that you should right away jump from the one to the other, effectively using the poor dead girl for your agenda. Crime and homelessness are complex problems some parts of which are easy to solve and some of which are much harder.

You can't simply jump from 'someone got murdered on public transport' to 'public transport can't be free'.


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JuniperMesos • today at 9:16 AM

He might've been deterred from committing the murder if he wasn't on the train at all but was instead in jail because he got immediately arrested by the cops for fare-jumping. Also murder isn't the only crime I don't want to happen on transit, that is most likely to be committed by someone who is already breaking the law against fare-jumping to be there at all.

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