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An honor system on ticket-checking can work fine if there's high enough fines for being caught without a ticket. If there's a 1 in 10 chance they'll check your
by Qwertystop 7y ago
An honor system on ticket-checking can work fine if there's high enough fines for being caught without a ticket. If there's a 1 in 10 chance they'll check your ticket, and the fine on riding without a ticket is at least ten times the cost of a ticket, the government comes out even as long as the cost of enforcing the fines isn't higher than the money saved by not having to hire as many ticket-checkers (or spend as much time waiting at the stop because of not needing to check everyone's ticket).
- sschueller 7y agoThe fine in Zürich is "only" USD ~100 plus the ticket you where supposed to have. However, if you get caught again the price goes up. Your record doesn't get deleted for at least a year. If you get cought more than 4 times they may take you to criminal court. If you have a valid ticket on your name but not on you, they will issue the fine but you will get it reduced to USD ~10-25 if you show your pass at a station beuro.
- eternalban 7y agoWell I was there for a couple of years and iirc maybe saw it twice? So definitely not 1/10. But of course no doubt some sort of cost analysis informs the Swiss norms. But it's not just the buses, but fair disclosure, I did catch the famous "Swiss Bug". (I was going to say August is a great time to visit Geneva and catch Les Fêtes de Genève but apparently it is no more.)