Article: Dallas-Area Transit Authority Says 2.65 Percent of Riders Don't Pay Fares.

The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 20--Star Besio loves public transportation, rides Dallas' sleek electric trains all the time, even views them as a sort of civic savior in the fight against air pollution, gas costs and gridlock.

Yet she resolutely refuses to buy the $1 ticket before hopping aboard a rail layout that counts largely on the honor system to make things go.

"I don't pay about 90 percent of the time," said the 23-year-old medical assistant, waiting with her boyfriend at Union Station last week for a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train and another free ride. "I believe truly that I shouldn't have to ...

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