Vancouver Transit Police go on a fining binge dispensing excessive $173 fines, cop makes a girl cry

TransLink is of course the orchestrator of the money siphoning scheme that is the inflated fare evasion fines as they are the ones that arbitrarily set the fine amount at a whooping $173 and seemingly direct their enforcement branch such as Transit Security and police to take a mass ticketing approach. Who decided on the random, arbitrary fine amount of $173? A 3 zone ticket cost $ yet the penalty for having an expired ticket, not having a ticket, etc is $173 which is a multiplier of over 100 times making it unreasonable and unjust. At most the fine should be $50 or even less than that. The psychology of having the excessive fine is understandable as it acts as a possibly effective deterrent but that still doesn’t justify it especially considering that a lot of people that get fined are homeless and/or vulnerable people as well as those that are new to the country and teenagers who might not at the time be financially stable. Transit should either be free