Vienna has something that would probably never work in the U.S. its entire transit system is based on honesty.
Vienna has commuter rail type train (SBahn), subway type train (UBahn), tram system, buses. You can use the same ticket for all of it. Same price. Here’s the thing: nobody is ever really going to check to see if you have a ticket. There are no machines to put your ticket through, no ticket checks on the trains, trams or buses. It is entirely based on you doing the responsible thing of buying the ticket. Bazaar.
Hold everything!!!! They actually do spot checks. The conductor (driver) can decide to conduct a check. There are sometimes people who check at stops. There can be an inspector on the train. People are still RARELY checked. You could probably easily get away with riding free. Fine for non payment: $105. A 2020 survey showed only 2% of people stopped didn’t have a valid ticket.
This is not the first city we’ve been in with this policy. In London you had to tap a card or ticket in and out. In Manchester we took the the tram. Nobody asked about a ticket. In Edinburgh there were random checks. In Belfast paid for bus like you would any bus. Dublin, nobody checked. Waterford and Cardiff we walked.
Transport going from city to city is one of the more complicated things we figure out. What is the system? What part of it will we take? Where do we go to take it. It doesn’t take long to figure it out. Now that we are in non English speaking countries it’s even more complicated.
But it’s part of the fun right? Har. It’s just part of the whole thing. Cant change it.
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August 29, 2022 at 06:07PM
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