Ed, I’d like to offer a few facts about the RiverLine train for those who are too cheap to buy a single-fare ticket. The discounted cost is just 65 cents for kids age 5-11, seniors 62 and older, and persons with special disabilities. A regular ticket is $1.35. Each validated ticket will work the entire 24-mile length, 20 stations, for two hours (you can get off and shop and resume your journey if it’s all within two hours). A $45 one-zone monthly bus pass will work the entire system every second of the month that the train runs. So for those too cheap to buy a ticket, think of it this way, if you are caught without a ticket, you will receive a $75 fare infraction ticket — that’s 55 times the regular ticket price. And maybe fare enforcement officers should start giving out $75 tickets to every single person who does not have a valid ticket. And they will take you off the train to give you this ticket.

Teaching rider

Were y’all paying attention?

— Ed. Note