She looks like one of those annoying entitled WASPy types.

Next time just wait for the next bus. Guess she'll think twice before doing something so ridiculous again.

This isn't a setup, and the man is not out to get you, this time. Far be it from me to defend the MTA, but if you don't know how the SBS system works, you're some kind of a) tourist, b) idiot, or c) bridge-and-tunnel idiot.

Pay the damn fine and shut up, b/c by this point, everyone within blocks of the SBS route knows how it works.

I would say she doesn't have to pay the fine if she wholeheartedly admits that she's TOO STUPID to realize that it was a select-bus. Come on, the flashing blue lights, blue outer markings, LED reading SELECT, etc.

those buses are open on both ends, public can legally board on both front and rear entrances, however this is a setup.

its the usual setup, agressive enforcement of a non issue passive reasonable circumstance that has considerable plausability. remember the ues mom who held both her metrocard and her son's student pass. as the legal gaurdian and parent in possesion of both passes for safekeeping, she swiped hers and swiped her son's and then was busted for swiping with a student card although she swiped two cards, not exactly in any order except swiping the full fare for her son, then swiping the student one for herself next both going through in that order, which ended up sufferring hours of detention for a ticket which no reasonable human being would consider a crime worthly of attention, given the circumstances the only person who would give out tickets in that situation was an unflinching robot of the state eager to fulfill his duties as a revenue generating automation enforer for a faceless MTA.

screw this city, im outta here, i will be logging in and checking on what you fools do from my private island, im rowing there as now the tsa has to touch my junk before i get on my private jet.

Why has The Gothamist titled this piece "Don't Believe The Bus Driver When He Says Ride Is Free" and written the perpetrators account of what happened as if it's the truth.Was the writer of this piece on the bus to witness and verify what happened or are we just being fed this bitch's press release as news story? Something very strange here.

If harassing a unicyclist is worth $3 million, this self entitled byotch figures she deserves at least $10 million since she is way too important to be bothered with things like paying bus fare.

Considering the completely different appearance, it's kind of hard to believe that a New Yorker could board an SBS bus without knowing it.

The bitch got caught red handed and is trying to turn it into a publicity campaign.Hideous publicity photo too.

I don't believe a word she says.

I think I figured this out:

Daryn Mayer is entitled. She can enter through the back-door because, let's face it -- the stupid bus driver can't tell her not to get on the bus when she has somewhere to be. She also can't be bothered with understanding how to pay for a fare.

With all this, it's only logically she honestly believes she was told to ride the bus for free because she's entitled and the rest of us are just in her way.

If she weren't white she'd have been arrested too.

#3. Inspectors should have metro card readers, so that people with valid unlimited ride cards can just swipe them and not get a ticket. making people get a receipt when they already have a monthly, weekly or daily metro card is dumb.

(if you have a pay per ride and no receipt, you get fined, because you were obviously trying to cheat).

they've been doing it this way in every german speaking country in europe for generations. it isn't difficult. just ask them how to make it work.

#1 - this is why they should have those receipt giving thingies on the buses, not just on the sidewalk. maybe prohibitively expensive, but its an idea

#2 - she got on the back because with SBS buses, you are allowed and encouraged to get on the the back. because you don't have to pay with you metro card on the bus (you're supposed to already have the receipt, remember?)

growing pains. everyone will figure out the SBS soon enough.

So, she says the driver told her she could ride for free, and he says he didn't tell her that. Somebody's lying... but she's a marketing executive! So come on, what are the chances of someone who makes their living that way being willing to lie in order to help their own position?

She sounds like a real peach.

Wait for the next bus, dear.

Can't you read? She was late to a meeting! A meeting, people. If you had a job, you'd know how she feels.

Only fare beaters and thugs enter through the back doors. In all my years, I've never entered through the rear doors.

Then I'd surmise that in all your years you've never ridden or heard of a Select Bus.

yes, you are correct. I only used the Limited.

and according to the select bus rules, you have to have your slip on hand before you get on the bus. You can't give your metrocard a swipe on a select bus which was probably what the driver told this woman.