Program has been credited with reducing crime and increasing fares bought a fire department warning cause the program over safety concerns since then crime has surged and fare evasion has increased lindsey pena is live in hollywood with details and reaction to metro’s controversial decision lindsay.
Sharon metro says this program is helping to make riding the trains safer in most areas, but since it’s been suspended they’ve had reports of all kinds of problems go back metros have to exit program requires riders to scan their prepaid to the started last year and according to metro it was helping bring down security incidents, including crime and drug use a decline of 40% on the b line which runs from north hollywood to union station very safe and everything’s okay. i do person support the top tax.
Program i think it helps promote safety and fun and on board. But after the la fire department raised concerns in april about the possibility of bottlenecks that exit gates during an emergency the program was suspended. in the months metro says union station has seen a 116% increase in reported security incidents and the north hollywood station, a 67% increase lapd crime data also showed an increase in narcotics activity on the b line and there’s been a decrease in fair revenues.
35,000 in the first month of suspension for union and north by let’s be metro board member supervisor kathryn barger says they like to find a way to keep the program going we should keep this moving forward because.
Again our first priority is a safe and clean metro system for people use especially those that are transit dependent, but also for those that want to from their car on the metro system.
Metro releasing a statement saying in part. metro is continue to make significant progress in creating a safer system. this year violent crimes are down 9% per 1 million boardings for the first 7 months of 2025, violent crimes are also down for the 3 months following the tap to exit suspension within los angeles compared to the same months.
