DART Lawsuits

[openeyes]

What is happening with the Dart/T lawsuit over the ticketing equipment? That's been dragging on for at least 6 years and I've heard that it's maybe...finally going to court. Does anybody know about this?

[tamtagon]

I've never heard anything about it.... someone here probably has, though.

[electricron]

I haven't either.

[orthr]

Never heard of it either...

[CityLove]

I know someone who has.

[tamtagon]

I know someone who has.

That's great.

[cowboyeagle05]

Does the lawsuit have anything to do with the fact over half of the machines seem to not work most of the time at least at the Downtown Garland DART station. I certainly had to tell many a DART cop that the reason that others on the train don't have a ticket is because the machines don't work.

[JCL]

Does the lawsuit have anything to do with the fact over half of the machines seem to not work most of the time at least at the Downtown Garland DART station. I certainly had to tell many a DART cop that the reason that others on the train don't have a ticket is because the machines don't work.

Ditto on the TRE platforms. In our case, the cops are aware and told us to just board and buy the ticket when we get off.

[RobertB]

Ditto on the TRE platforms. In our case, the cops are aware and told us to just board and buy the ticket when we get off.
The DART folks at 8th/Corinth told me I should go buy a day pass from a bus, because the machines never work.

[DalLove444]

^ thats what i would normally do because, the hotel i stay in is near #21 bus and i buy a day pass from it. Cityplace station is a few long blocks away, but u know me haha i love buses lol :)

[cowboyeagle05]

Ditto on the TRE platforms. In our case, the cops are aware and told us to just board and buy the ticket when we get off.

At the next station or when you finish getting to your destination? casue last time I got off at Garland Forest Lane station to buy a ticket the DART train was gone once I finally got the machine to print out the ticket and then I had to wait till a train took me back to Downtown Garland then onward to Downtown Dallas. Lets just say I was really late at that point.

Who honestly would buy a ticket once they get to their destination. Plus no DART cop I've interacted with has never not written me a ticket/fine for riding without a pass even when I was wearing my El Centro Chef's coat, carrying my equipment, and had receipts to show my enrollment to El Centro.

[electricron]

Whatever happen to the old fashioned idea of using station masters to sell tickets at every station instead of machines? There's very little technology that can go wrong when using people. All DART would have to do is build a ticket booth with a strong safe on every platform and man them.

[JCL]

At the next station or when you finish getting to your destination?

Their intent was for us to buy the ticket at our destination (in this case we were going from West Irving to Union Station) on the honor system. We made sure they knew who we were in case someone came along checking for tickets... but it didn't seem like a big deal to them... i.e. perhaps the machines had been broken for a while... wouldn't this train people to ride free though?