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Key Takeaway:

Seattle’s Sound Transit is considering installing gates at its gateless rail stations to reverse a low fare-payments compliance rate.

Key Data:

• Document: Sound Transit board presentation, Dec. 2025

• Document: Cambridge Systematics report, Dec. 2022

Organizations Mentioned:

• Sound Transit (Seattle)
• Cambridge Systematics
• SEPTA (Philadelphia)
• MTA (New York)
• Los Angeles Metro
• MARTA (Atlanta)
• BART (San Francisco)
• Metro Transit (St. Louis)

 

This past December, Sound Transit’s board of directors in Seattle told CEO Dow Constantine to produce a fare gate retrofit implementation study, along with plans for a potential pilot. The deadline is the end of June 2026. 

Focusing the mind of transit officials are troubling estimates of unrealized revenue, especially from

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