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Alex, but it is. We often use enforcement after the fact. For example, there is nothing to stop you from filing a false tax return. Except that long after you do, you could be caught and arrested etc...Same thing here, you can break the rule, but afterward you'll find you have gained nothing and are probably worse off than before.

If people get on, try to get downtown, can't and have to get back on and ride somewhere far away, then they'll only do that once before they realize it doesn't work. I think the impact of having a handful of people try this once and fail would be very small. The real goal is to keep people from doing this daily and that's what it would do.

Ideally we could stop people from making that one attempt. But we can't. Not without a high cost. It isn't the ideal method of enforcement from an efficacy standpoint, but it is from an efficacy/cost standpoint.

by David C on Jul 9, 2012 1:39 pm • link • report

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