Max has been fucked up for years. I don’t know why they thought riding on the honor system would ever work. It should be a turnstile system like NY city subway - if you don’t have the money, you can’t ride.

My husband rides the MAX to Hillsboro and on the first train from pioneer square every day. It runs full of homeless meth and heroin and crack addicts coughing and even people smoking cigarettes and marijuana and eating fried chicken and throwing their trash out the doors at stations. Don't give me the bullshit about fare inspectors. Fuck off. There aren't nearly enough.