Dix caught riding SkyTrain without ticket
Posted March 27, 2012 6:10 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – BC New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix admits he was recently caught riding SkyTrain without a valid transit ticket.
Dix says he received a warning after a transit officer stopped him at a downtown stop and he couldn’t produce a ticket. He insists he always buys a pass, but this time he couldn’t prove it. .
“I’ve been probably been checked over the past ten years of riding it hundreds times. I was found without a ticket and that’s the way it goes, I’m completely responsible for that,” explains Dix.
The fine for fare evasion is $173, which Dix says he would have gladly paid, as did Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robinson who was issued a ticket and fine in 2007 for not having a valid ticket.
Dix says his transit violation shouldn’t be compared with his infamous memo-to-file incident where he admitted backdating a memo for former premier Glen Clark in the 1990s. That incident ultimately led to his departure as a top-ranking aide to the former premier.
TransLink estimates that fare evasion costs the transportation system more than $7-million annually.
