If you're on I, Anonymous then you likely entered the same url as I did to visit the site and you similarly were greeted by a Blogtown article about Trimet considering going fareless. If you haven't read it - don't worry it really doesn't say much. I am a bus driver. I've driven for Trimet now for a little more than four years. The company structure doesn't go without it's own issues (what does?) but I will say the union is very integrated and we get to see a lot of information that we're not supposed to openly and willfully spread. For example: when you look at the amount of money it costs to maintain the fare system - fare inspectors, their vehicles, maintenance of their vehicles, contributions to transit police, mechanics, electricians, and repairmen who maintain ticket machines now transitioning into the app developers, software and hardware engineers, etc etc - and compare that number to the over all money made by fares, you will see that we actually spend more money to develop, maintain, and enforce the fare system than we make from it. The biggest hurdle is that a bunch of people have personal philosophies that "nothing comes for free." Honestly, it makes no sense that I now have to listen to pissed off riders about the hop transition, or get behind on schedule because someone is fumbling to get their phone to work, over an antiquated system that doesn't even generate the money to pay for the people who enforce it. When someone gets on and doesn't have fare or has some other issue, I just tell them to board as long as they don't look like they're going to hurt someone or poop on my bus. I don't know what they have to "consider."