Thanks, BSB Solicitors. Press J to jump to the feed. Or/and they think pay as you go is so hot, and so new. But railways, especially ones that have to cope with a giant network, hardly ever run at a profit so all it really means is a horrible choice between running fewer services, increasing fares (on routes with lower traffic than the ones chosen by the commercial entities; yeah that will work but of course it will simply force these horribly inefficient lines to close) or other kinds of cuts, slash & burn etc. Why not try to minimize the average cost of a trip in the system instead? Webboston college early decision acceptance rate 2025. I would have no hesitation in recommending them to anyone I know who was looking for legal representation in any matter. Yeah, but dont confuse yourself or others. Get the Niigata/Sendai/Morioka/Aomori/Akita/Matsuyama right before complaining about the Senboku/Daigo/Iiiyama places where nobody lives and a railway which is a high-capacity system is increasingly a poor fit. Thanks for the advice. Of course, you can ask for transit to be free, and investments budgets to be endless, but that is not a very constructive approach to solve real-world problems. though my excuse was I was working out in the suburbs; at the end of my first year the M7 extension reached Villejujif, and simultaneously my old car was vandalised and also gave up the ghost) and helps the economics of those tens of thousands of modest restos etc. Sendai for instance is very much concrete before electronics/operations. And yet, I cant help but notice the parallels with left-wing moralism on this: sexual assault is a form of oppression, theft (even robbery sometimes) is righteous downward redistribution of wealth. Yes. Answered in 5 minutes by: Solicitor: Jo C. Jo C., Barrister Category: UK Law Satisfied Customers: 82,725 Experience: Over 5 years in practice. Taken to court by TFL for fare evasion under contrary to byelaw 17. If occasional riders have to read a massive chart to figure out what theyre supposed to pay they probably just wont pay it at all. The British and American approach is to make it hard to break the law, even at the cost of making it hard to follow it. Broadly: smartcards/ticket machines that actually work and are easy to use, cleaner network/new trains/reliability and half-height barriers/visible staff will do ya. I suppose one possible rationale is that in other old, established countries most people consider their nation to be their ancestral home, and so resent interlopers (and contrive to keep them poor & marginalised), while in the New World, almost everyone knows they come from somewhere else in relatively recent history, and it is accepted norm that the new arrivals will quickly integrate just like all of us have done. No one is questioning that it could be done by technology. We discussed everything that happened and even thought was a hard case he built a strong defense we the results could not have been better. January 2019, Really great service and very professional. I dont think Aaron was saying he agreed with this position. SB, 2019/11/15 09:51 They actually reduced the fare on the Staten Island ferry to zero. In Vancouver, Cubic lobbying and a New Right campaign about fare evasion forced TransLink to install faregates on SkyTrain, and when the faregate project had predictable cost overruns, the campaigners took that as evidence the agency shouldnt get further funding. Not being American I dont know my semi-automatic high-powered weapons at all well. It certainly helps the use of the Metro/RER, keeps car use low (you need to be slightly insane to try to drive in Paris; I did for the first year . Thats Fare Evasion 101. The turnstile acts as a reminder to everyone to pay their fare, since its not possible to fare-dodge without actively jumping it. So you need to LOOK like youre going after the habituals. Thisll be relatively broad because Im in a hotel bar in Berlin, not at home with all my notes, but generally the London experience is that fare evasion can be divided into two categories: It is $12.40 to go from Fremont to SFO (a 30 mile drive). I can only think you are British because this is the kind of logic by which they run their transit. it is clear that you dont have any experience of very well run transit city, such as in East Asia, where rich and poor regularly alike use transit. It also occurs when In smaller operations, I actually encountered that the driver just counted the number of people getting on and off (well, that was in a midi bus, or even smaller one. Of course it will. On Monday, Democratic legislators pitched a new system decriminalizing fare evasion on public transit statewide, making the offense a petty misdemeanor, similar to a Sure. And on the other hand, by the relatively frictionless Paris and French system. As someone unfamiliar with any type of legal proceedings they made sure I was updated through every step of the process and, ultimately, helped me to achieve a satisfactory conclusion. Quick correction: Singapore does have monthly passes. Beyond population density, efficiency is an important reason why transit is so cheap in East Asia. ), * Paris + Petite Couronne are 762km^2 with a population density of 8.8k/km^2, * The 23 Wards of Tokyo are 619km^2 with a population density of 15.1k/km^2, * le-de-France is 12,012km^2 with a population density of 1.0k/km^2, * Itto Sanken is 13,500km^2 with a population density of 2.6k/km^2, * Kanto + Shizuoka (wide enough to cover pretty much every Tokyo commuter including distant Shinkansen suburbs, though is dominated by wilderness and includes many towns that dont have commute links with Tokyo at all) is 40,200km^2 with a population density of 1.1k/km^2. france.fr The official website of France. [You double-posted; I deleted the shorter version.]. One doesnt think, on the weekend or non-commuting period, whether to take a short or a long trip on the Metro, one thinks of the trips one wants/needs to take and might compare doing it by Metro, private car or taxi. Philadelphias SEPTA system is an object lesson in how NOT to design a fare system. And the London lessons are very applicable to NY. Its not just the one study by Khosrokhavar, though IIRC its overall about 50% vs. 8%, so still factor-of-11 overrepresentation relative to population (and no, Muslims do not commit crimes at 11 times the rate of non-Muslims in France), just not the 2/3 in the original study. You can sometimes find left-populists here who promise great fare reductions, but these just soak up subsidies that could go to better service. Most people move further from the city to save on housing costs, but that is balanced by commuting costs and time. Affordable transit, along with affordable housing, is just one thing in not only creating an equitable society, but as economists now realise (doh!) 2) Is the service worth the relative economic price to me? https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/18/free-public-transportation/#comment-61991. With the Paris flat-fare system and immense freedom of Carte Orange, and of course that in almost every single aspect the system outperformed LU and was cheaper. Which surprised quite a few people that night. This one said the writer was exaggerating the cost, and that there were many choices to get the price down a lot. Or better still, a Hong Konger or Singaporean who moved to either London or Paris. Its a valid debate to have and a valid stance to have. There really are no excuses to adopt gold-standard solutions from elsewhere, though it is depressingly common in US transit, but also many European countries. When videos of aggressive arrests surfaced, protesters demonstrated against the police presence by jumping turnstiles en masse. The form will ask you whether you intend to plead guilty or not guilty and will give you an option to enter your plea by post. In lieu of treating it as a big intra-urban culture war, I am going to talk about best practices from the perspective of limiting revenue loss to a minimum. Today I interpret monthly passes a kind of rent-seeking among one group of transit users, who want other people to pay the cost for their transit use. Most months have a holiday in them, and there may also be a sick or vacation day thrown in. Thats a significant consideration for regions with large income disparities. Because the truth is that ANYONE will fare evade, its just for these people it is a conscious (or almost-conscious) act based on a bunch of questions they are running through in their head:. Even as a visitor, depending on timing, I wouldnt hesitate to buy it at full face value since it really is a pass to freedom of the city, and a travel bargain. (I have literally just joined this site so apologies if I do anything wrong!) One should also note that providing useful public transport service does not scale to the level of individual trips or trip lengths. That doesnt pay for itself. But this also means a valid GoPass user could ironically be cited for fare evasion if they fail to tag on! Most if not all Parisians love the Metro and consider it theirs. So there is, or at least was, that kind of enforcement on this issue. At the end of the day they are more affected by a shitty public environment than the wealthy who can retreat to their upper middle class bubbles and not have to deal with the antisocial. (Both also have the worst inequality amongst the developed world so they need to cater to the low-SES workers.) Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Thank you so much! Fromstartto finish, my claim was dealt veryprofessionally. Is that recent? Evidently it did non-German things like building a full metro in a then-small city rather than a Stadtbahn and having Lokalbanan terminate in outlying areas with a T-bana transfer rather than trying to through-run them as S-Bahns. Because they wont embarrass a habitual, but theyll act like a gameshow buzzer highlighting to everyone else that CASUAL evasion is possible when that person gets away with it!, But you DO need enforcement, its just your dirty secret is that you dont really give a shit whether you catch anyone. long-term transit passes are for travel between an exact combination of two stations only, and are essentially useless for anything besides commuting. You meet an interrogation window that demands what time you want to travel, or they only show a single service (Ouigo etc). But yeah, the moralistic response on the left of treating fare evasion as something good (esp. Though, dare I say, and FWIW, it also perfectly correlates with the Anglosphere DMU branch lines as political patronage are a waste! For commutes, especially the suburban crowd, transit is essentially free as to user, as its paid for by the employer, and the income is untaxed by the government. Does anyone higher up the food chain than a churro vendor gets tackled to the ground by police over this? They might have a different scheme to purely private employers. Honestly, we are just. It is not like we are arguing about some fantasy scenarios, I am just saying that the West could adopt systems more similar to the East (where it evidently works very well). I would recommend them to anyone facing a similar situation. fremont hospital deaths; what happened to tropical tidbits; chris herren speaking fee; boracay braids cultural appropriation; tfl fare evasion settle out of court.