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I don't know about exact policies on Swiss railway/local public transport networks, but I'm pretty sure by now fines and frequency of checks are calculated such
by bschne 7y ago
I don't know about exact policies on Swiss railway/local public transport networks, but I'm pretty sure by now fines and frequency of checks are calculated such that it ends up being cheaper for the transport company to only do random checking instead of check every ticket.
- sschueller 7y agoThat is correct. There is a percentage of acceptable invalid ticket holders below which enforcment would cost more than the loss of ticket revenue. They realized a long time ago that 100% valid tickets in impossible. Everyone can forget to buy the right ticket at some point in their life. We are humans not machines.
- dsego 7y agoWhere I live, the bus drivers will now only open the first door to inspect tickets, and then open all the back doors to let passengers out. I guess a lot of folks (especially kids) were not buying tickets. And the inspector doesn't have the authority to hold you or see your ID, so a lot of kids would just play dumb, ask to exit at the next stop or even argue with the inspector. I've even seen shoving and fights. Sometimes the bus driver would close all the doors and wait for the police to arrive. This of course aggravate everyone else on the bus. Other times they would have the police accompany the inspector. It's also common to hear someone come in at the front and ask the bus driver to only go one stop without a ticket. I always thought it was a local or regional thing. Then I heard the same in a Toronto streetcar, on the other side of the world. A very surreal moment, it made me smile.