Last month, the Los Angeles Daily News reported that LA Metro, the L.A. area's mass transit authority, essentially stopped trying to enforce fare collection years ago. The result, unsurprisingly, is mass fare evasion, with almost half of passengers riding for free. That's bad enough, but a separate report from the Independent Institute describes Los Angeles public transportation as costly to operate and dangerous to use. That led the group to award the system a booby prize for its failures.

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On November 16, transit advocate Alex Davis, physician Nimesh Rajakumar, and commuter safety activist Erica Solis summarized their report, A Metro Worth Pa

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