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What the... that was painful to read and comprehend. Was this kind of complexity really necessary? Did someone get a promotion for coming up with this?
by ZeikJT 8y ago
What the... that was painful to read and comprehend. Was this kind of complexity really necessary? Did someone get a promotion for coming up with this?
- sshine 8y agoI copied and translated a quite limited subset of the official traveller guidelines. There are several reasons why it ended up like this, and I don't know all of them. But two reasons I can think of: 1) With the introduction of RFID-based commuter cards, the zone system was revised for traditional ticket types as well. It appears convenient that a price can always be determined by knowing the check-in point, the check-out point and the shortest path in the graph. Unfortunately, with the old ticket types, you have to perform the calculation instead. 2) It is the odd shape of zone 2 that causes some tickets to not work on the way back, even though the trip goes in a straight line. But for a large part of all trips, you only need zone 1 and 2, or zone 2 and zone (30, 31, 32, 33). Only the ones that start in zone 2, go through zone 1, go back into zone 2 and farther into another zone (or vice versa) have the anomaly. (Trips that actually bend can have this too, but it is slightly more intuitive.)