Incidentally, another difference between HK & Singapore is that they are quite low-tax places, whereas France (and most EU) are high personal tax countries; one thus has a mentality that my taxes partly paid for this so one can start to resent paying excessively to use it as well. If you are charged with an offence and are to be prosecuted in court, you may receive a postal requisition. I already contacted various solicitors over the weekend, and hope to hear from them soon enough. The penny pinching Japanese private railroad operators seems very able to operate and plan efficient transit decades ahead. Wow, I had no idea a Japanese city could have so much car dependent sprawl! They claim such abuse could be costing the government hundreds of million in long term. No doubt designed and enforced by genuine elites who never intend to use the Underground themselves, except for an annual photo-op. What if those exit-only turnstiles are actually supplementary to those where the entrance and swipe-card machines are? Perhaps the approach shouldnt be to offer DISincentives for riders who dont have passes but rather to offer positive incentives for more people to use electronic, cash-free payment methods even if they fall outside the middle-class demographic. I am an experienced litigation solicitor specialising in pragmatic risk management. Im not sure how much they were promoting free transit (I only browsed it) but their predominant conclusion about UK policy on fares and costs was solid. It is entirely because the government refused to adequately fund public transport. the Albtalbahn before it was converted to tram-train. Software Passed a law to forbid one penny of government money going toward Eurostar or HS1 (part of the reason it took 12 years after Eurostar began, and turned into one of the textbook cases of PPP/PFI gone wrong). In most cities roads are not priced properly and the transport system is a broken market in general. The public transport system provides a certain level of constant service and a monthly pass is a right to use this service. This is bad practice, especially for passengers who prefer to refill at a ticketing machine rather than at home or on their phone with an app, since it means passengers visit the ticketing machines more often, requiring the agency to buy more to avoid long lines. Fare gates on very crowded systems (such as Londons) also act as crowd control at Stations that are getting overcrowded due to disruption.

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