Brent Cagle
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2,705 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
Brent Cagle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The other thing I'll say on the light rail is there are benefits that were known to building an open system.
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It is the norm throughout the country.
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And the bus system by and large is an open system as well.
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And so it's not possible to check every rider
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every day, every trip, but it is possible to increase presence so that people understand that they are more likely to be checked and therefore they are going to be buying those tickets.
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It will be fare enforcement operations throughout the system.
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It is not a single person stationed on every bus every hour of the day or every light rail vehicle every hour of the day.
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It is a visible presence throughout the system that people see routinely, but it is not literally one staff person or two staff people per vehicle every hour of every day.
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I don't have that number in front of me.
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I assure you there are citations, but I will also say, and we can get you that number, I will also say our goal is not to go out and write as many tickets as we can.
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Our goal is to gain compliance, and so it is frequent that
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are fair inspectors will encounter someone who hasn't paid and they will give them the opportunity to buy that ticket rather than write them a citation.
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But I can get you the total number of citations.
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Yeah, so again, I would defer to Lee on exactly their operational plan on fare enforcement, but clearly we acknowledge two things.
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One, we need more staff dedicated to fare enforcement, and two, that fare enforcement should be decoupled from security
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and security is there to support them while they're doing their job, which is checking tickets.
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So I'll need to, we can get you the answer specifically to how many are currently there, but we acknowledge that there needs to be more.
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Yeah, so I'll give you an example, and it's not that we will start coordinating, it's we'll continue coordinating.
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So we know we've already started conversations with Roof Above.
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During COVID, CATS made the decision to allow Roof Above, their folks who are staying overnight at their center on Statesville Avenue, to utilize the bus to get to their day center, which is over on Tryon.
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