How Useful Is the Aggressive Fare Enforcement of Link Light Rail?

by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
The one, possibly only thing, I dislike about Vancouver BC's SkyTrain is that it's completely run by machines. I have used the system over 100 times in the downtown area, and only once have seen a human working at a station as an employee of the rail system. The trains are fully automated, and tickets are dispensed by machines; they also do the gatekeeping. The system is one giant transportation robot. Seattle's Link Light Rail has humans, but they only do two fo