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The best solution. No fares. Government provided infrastructure shouldn't be gated by cost. You then are essentially saying poor people can't have access to these things because they don't pay enough taxes and that's literally the opposite of why we have taxes and governments. If the point was to only serve those with money we'd just need businesses. Not also governments.
It raises an interesting question; if it were feasible to implent without massive privacy concerns, would you support income-proportional fee structure for government services? I'm imagining below a certain cutoff income-bracket, everything would be free.
Caltrain and Metrolink (California, USA regional trains) have the right idea. Low income Americans by and large carry EBT cards. They give a 50% discount on tickets when scanned. Of course this could be technologically easily made free but it's a start and the remaining challeges are financial and political.