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Re: Fare Inspection Experience after using Express Transit Card |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Fri Jul 24 06:43:46 2026, in response to Re: Fare Inspection Experience after using Express Transit Card, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Jul 23 22:30:02 2026. Cash will probably go away as an option. If, however, they kept it around, the farebox would probably issue a receipt to show to inspectors.Of course, even now regular buses can be inspected for fare evasion if they really wanted to. The inspector, already aboard the bus, observes someone getting on, bypassing the farebox and taking a seat. But that doesn't involve a special press release, new expensive infrastructure, or rebranding the bus, so it can't happen in NYC. For Switzerland's local transport (not talking about intercity rail), which is totally POP, the inspector(s) are plain-clothed and act just like passengers until the vehicle starts to move. Then they inspect as many as they can until the next stop where they go back to "ordinary passenger" appearance, even to the point of taking a seat. I've had 4 local-transport inspection experiences there now (over 3 trips totaling about 15 days) and I couldn't come up with any rhyme or reason for when to expect one. One was on a funicular, one was on a bus, and two were on trams. For one of the tram ones, it was evening and I was somewhat reverse-commuting (headed toward the city-center) and it was near the beginning of the run and it was the last thing I would have expected after all the transit I had already used that day without being inspected. |
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