Link light rail riders actually pay their fare. San Francisco looked at numbers like that and built fare gates. Seattle is looking at numbers like that and scheduling more meetings.

Nearly 79,000 fares were checked last year after inspectors returned to King County Metro buses. Only eight of those fare checks resulted in citations.

After two months of reminders, King County Metro said it will begin full fare enforcement starting Saturday. King County Metro fare enforcement officers will start issuing printed warnings and ...

SEATTLE — Questions are mounting over King County Metro’s fare enforcement program after new data showed relatively few citations issued despite tens of thousands of fare checks, prompting calls for ...