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Officials in Atlanta thought they really found the answer to evading fares: spend over $100 million to upgrade its turnstiles. They believed this would deter jumpers hoping to evade the less than $3 fee. They thought painfully wrong.

Security footage shows a rider breaking through the $130 million glass to avoid paying the small train fee. The fact that officials could not predict something like this would happen proves how incompetent officials in Atlanta truly are.

According to 11 Alive:

MARTA aims to get more of its customers to pay. The transit system is changing out the faregates at all of its rail stations – the barriers that take payment and ostensibly keep out those who don’t.

Changing them out will cost the transit system about $130 million. The new ones will look like those now in use in Honolulu’s transit system.

At a MARTA board meeting Thursday, the transit system’s police chief said fare enforcement is akin to a carnival game.

While I am no transit expert, this is the mess the left creates when they refuse to hold people accountable for crimes. They don't get to pick and choose what rules are enforceable and what people get a slap on the wrist for. And stories like this are precisely why we have the saying: You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. You cannot turn a blind eye to crime and then expect people to pay the train fare. That is not how the real world works.

In addition to wasting over $100 million, the city now has to track down the suspects who damaged the very expensive glass barriers. To call these people clowns would be an understatement.

MARTA police have made dozens of arrests and are seeking dozens more suspects after a wave of damage to the transit system’s new fare gates, according to crime data obtained by Channel 2 Action News. Since the new fare gates went online June 1, MARTA police have arrested 40 people accused of damaging the gates and have issued 29 outstanding “be on the lookout” alerts for additional suspects, according to WSB-TV.

It is unclear what the solution is going forward, but let’s just hope it does not cost another $130 million.

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