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"In Germany, the population is more concerned about privacy. Despite being targeted by a string of communist terrorist attacks in the 1970s and 80s, it maintain
by Kurtz79 7y ago
"In Germany, the population is more concerned about privacy. Despite being targeted by a string of communist terrorist attacks in the 1970s and 80s, it maintained an open system, without any faregates at any train station (including subways); fare enforcement in German cities relies on proof of payment with roving inspectors. "
A lot of systems have faregates that work also using anonymous tickets or fare cards.
But kudos to Germany for using such a system, I cannot imagine it working without massive fare evasion in many other countries.
- rsynnott 7y agoMost bus and light rail systems use something like this, don't they? Kind of impractical otherwise.
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- i80and 7y agoThe Minneapolis Light Rail works this way in the US! If there's a significant fare evasion problem, I haven't heard of it.
- rustybelt 7y agoI know the light rail system in St. Louis uses this method of fare enforcement and I believe several other small systems do as well.
- siphon22 7y agoI feel that it's an institutional problem in the U.S. Leaving cultural issues aside, if people were being taken care of, they would less likely have such an antagonistic relationship with society(which includes government, businesses, companies, other people, etc) where they could justify fare evasion and other "small" crimes. Ideally, people should understand they are ultimately stealing from themselves and hurting themselves when they do things like litter or steal. Because if they pay taxes in any shape or form, that's partially their money that's going to be used to fix it. Unfortunately, in the U.S., for many it feels like the taxes they pay either never go back to them in the form of services and infrastructure that benefits them or is out right used to exploit or hurt them.