Based on the 2009 salary numbers for fare inspectors, Trimet spent $654,468.09 on enforcement.

And that is just salaries and benefits..Does not include post-employment benefits, amortized pension plans, or the non-labor costs of fare enforcement.

In other words, the entire plan could be revenue negative, unless people are so scared to ride without tickets that they've started buying them. And by people, I mean 53,387 people who would not have bought a pass at 2010 levels of enforcement but do at the current levels. (Assumption calculated using 2 hour all-zone fare).

Also, the numbers show that they issue a whopping 2.55 tickets per hour, assuming that MAX operates 20 hours a day (I believe the real number is close to 22 hours, but I didn't want to do the math...)

TL;DR - Cancel Trimet and start fresh with a new agency.

What he said.