Muni's (Sometimes Botched) Fare Inspection Efforts By The Numbers

• 700,000: The number of people who ride Muni every day
• $20 million: The amount of money, per year, that Muni says that it's losing because some riders don't pay their fare
• 54: The number of full-time fare inspectors employed by the SFMTA to catch those scofflaws
• 70,000: The number of people those fare inspectors cited for fare evasion last year
• 55,000: The number of riders who've been cited for fare evasion since July 2013
• 3%: The percent of Clipper Card scanners on Muni transit vehicles that are broken
• 8700: The number of Muni riders, since July 2013, who say they have been wrongly cited for fare evasion due to those broken scanners
• 175: The number of people who were able to get those citations dismissed
• $103: The cost to settle a Muni fare evasion citation
• $2.4 million: The amount of money fare evasion citations have generated for the SFMTA since July, 2013.

All facts and figures: Broken Muni readers can mean unfair tickets, May 22, 2014, San Francisco Chronicle