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I was watching a travel show about France and in Paris it seems tourists can get confused as to where their ticket is for. They can easily end up on a train in

I was watching a travel show about France and in Paris it seems tourists can get confused as to where their ticket is for. They can easily end up on a train in an area their ticket isn't for. You get a 100 Euro fine! And that's an honest mistake not trying to get away without buying a ticket.

skeeter2020 2y ago
100 Euros for a travel story you'll tell years into the future, and funding the tourism economy - win-win!
- grugagag 2y ago
  100 Euros per person. A group of 7 would be 700 and that is only one mishap, there could be multiple per day..
  - dnate 2y ago
    yet another reason not to visit Paris, win-win!
  - Piskvorrr 2y ago
    Pretty sure you wouldn't want to make two of those in succession. I mean, last time I had to pay a fine for not having The Correct Blessed Type Of Ticket, I did pay a lot of attention to the tickets I bought next. (Wasn't as expensive as in Paris, but still a palpable mistake.)
- actinium226 2y ago
  "We got fined for getting off the train at the wrong stop" is not much of a travel story though.
  - KineticLensman 2y ago
    > "We got fined for getting off the train at the wrong stop" is not much of a travel story though. I was on a plane recently and two people in the row behind me were having a lengthy moan about their respective travel experiences / disasters. They stopped escalating when one of them said "That's nothing, we were just coming in to land when the volcano started to erupt." I was really tempted to stand up and pitch in with a line about landing in Tokyo when Godzilla chose that precise moment to attack, but the fasten-seatbelts sign had just lit up, so I didn't.
jasonkester 2y ago
Yeah, that kinda sucks. Last year I bought a friend a ticket from Avon (just south of Paris) to Charles de Gaulle. I rode along and we stopped for lunch in Paris. He carried on to the airport, met mr. Ticket man, and got a €100 fine for taking the route printed on his ticket, but too slowly. I can’t understand what they’re trying to incentivise by doing this to tourists.
- cryptonym 2y ago
  Transport company gets some money and ticket man gets a share. There is no incentive for them to be human.
altacc 2y ago
Like a lot of rules, enforcement needs to be realistic, appropriate and not overly harsh. In Oslo at least, the obvious tourists tend to get let off with just buying a ticket, even though the ticket app makes it easy to buy the correct ticket. If you speak Norwegian they often look at your travel history to see if you’re a regular payer who just forgot.

skeeter2020 2y ago

100 Euros for a travel story you'll tell years into the future, and funding the tourism economy - win-win!

grugagag 2y ago
100 Euros per person. A group of 7 would be 700 and that is only one mishap, there could be multiple per day..
- dnate 2y ago
  yet another reason not to visit Paris, win-win!
- Piskvorrr 2y ago
  Pretty sure you wouldn't want to make two of those in succession. I mean, last time I had to pay a fine for not having The Correct Blessed Type Of Ticket, I did pay a lot of attention to the tickets I bought next. (Wasn't as expensive as in Paris, but still a palpable mistake.)
actinium226 2y ago
"We got fined for getting off the train at the wrong stop" is not much of a travel story though.
- KineticLensman 2y ago
  > "We got fined for getting off the train at the wrong stop" is not much of a travel story though. I was on a plane recently and two people in the row behind me were having a lengthy moan about their respective travel experiences / disasters. They stopped escalating when one of them said "That's nothing, we were just coming in to land when the volcano started to erupt." I was really tempted to stand up and pitch in with a line about landing in Tokyo when Godzilla chose that precise moment to attack, but the fasten-seatbelts sign had just lit up, so I didn't.

jasonkester 2y ago

Yeah, that kinda sucks. Last year I bought a friend a ticket from Avon (just south of Paris) to Charles de Gaulle. I rode along and we stopped for lunch in Paris. He carried on to the airport, met mr. Ticket man, and got a €100 fine for taking the route printed on his ticket, but too slowly. I can’t understand what they’re trying to incentivise by doing this to tourists.

cryptonym 2y ago
Transport company gets some money and ticket man gets a share. There is no incentive for them to be human.

altacc 2y ago

Like a lot of rules, enforcement needs to be realistic, appropriate and not overly harsh. In Oslo at least, the obvious tourists tend to get let off with just buying a ticket, even though the ticket app makes it easy to buy the correct ticket. If you speak Norwegian they often look at your travel history to see if you’re a regular payer who just forgot.