In such cities monthly passes do barely exist, and cities aim for a fair and efficient pricing system. Theyll be lucky if they dont get some Hong Kong-inspired rebellion! In fact, all of these have had a more permissive stance that has been incrementally put in place in NYC over the past 2-3 years, and anyone who rides the train has seen it. Let me grab my laptop and a beer from the hotel bar and Ill do a quickly summary of findings., Okay. London has monthly / yearly travelcards, but not on the capping system you have to pre-purchase them and theyre valid for the month / year. At 20 km the single fare is $1.78 and the breakeven point is 68, which means the monthly might as well not exist. And it more or less coped with delivering those 1-2 million in a few hours without major drama. Yes, though my employer (in as much as they paid my salary since a lot of the time I was on fellowship, ie. (Ile de France has a population density of 1010 people per sq km, that should say. 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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 talking to Americans about fare evasion, I have found that they are generally receptive to the idea of minimizing revenue loss net of collection costs. Its not about catching habitual offenders. The commuting trips are the predictable part of that persons transportation. In reality, this would actually be a cost saving measure because any system to collect fares, be that fare gates or proof of payment, is very expensive, so getting your revenue from taxes instead of fares would actually be cheaper for the residents. @Sassy: Japan has a norm of subsidized commuting costs (mostly employer subsidized, but the amount of government subsidy increases as income increases since it comes as a tax benefit), and while its cool that people can and do commute via Shinkansen from exurbs over 100km from the city center, I dont think that is behavior the government should promote.. Labour will scrap the bewildering and outdated fares and ticketing system that discriminates against part-time workers, discourages rail travel and excludes the young and low paid.. But the government still think this is a severe problem to the government budget, and is now proposing the adaption of a new ID-based system for the elderly discount, requiring elderly across the city obtain a new transit card with their name and photo printed onto it, and show the photo to drivers or ticket validators whenever they want to ride public transit, so as to avoid such sort of abuse. No gates to get on. And it makes you feel that you own the city (or the IdF). The second is FAR easier to deal with than the first., This is because habitual evaders will ALWAYS try to evade. Nordic public transport is generally based on German practice, but this is an exception. 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. Are you aware of the kind of thing they subjected Season Ticket holders to from the Home Counties? We are seeing more an more examples of clients being 3) Lost revenue from passengers avoiding system due to crime can be inferred via a safety survey. Efficiency is usually both environmental and fair. Caltrain has an unlimited annual GoPass (http://www.caltrain.com/Fares/tickettypes/GO_Pass.html) they only make available to large employers, who must pay based on total eligible employee headcount and not actual employee usage. The (old) UK system was the opposite of frictionless and it used to raise my temperature from rubbing up against it (not in a lacivious or frottage way! 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. Whats more, the fare inspection should be a low-key affair. But instead, each agency requires the card user to pay (tap the reader). That is what happens in the UK where taxes are high and user-charges are high (and as it happens with a system run on econocratic lines, the service is poorer; a trifecta merde sandwich). Lets assume that a bus operator has one equipped vehicle for each size (standard, articulated). The next state government forced the city transit operators to simplify their systems and work together for the next contract . WebSo fare evasion is a civil offence not a criminal one. Heres (below) the usual b.s. A Monthly Travelcard for zones 1-2 (inner London) is 134.80 (US$169.45, 150.96) widespread availability of payment kiosks and retail sales locations as well as a low or zero upfront cost would seem to be reasonable starting points. Concerns the railways not London transit. Thats a significant consideration for regions with large income disparities. I get why that is, but you really want to go somewhat lower than 45 on these grounds. WebThank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 14th March 2022 asking for information about fare evasion. It is entirely because the government refused to adequately fund public transport. Since racial identification is supposed to not occur in official stats. Learn how your comment data is processed. long-term transit passes are for travel between an exact combination of two stations only, and are essentially useless for anything besides commuting. Stores dont have gates. Whats a little food poisoning now and then? For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution, fare evasion costs $240 million a year on the subway and buses, The total cost of the new patrol program is $56 million in the first year, https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/11/public-transportation-security-safety-laws-protests-equity/602212/, https://www.traveller.com.au/traveller-letters-campari-spritz-is-far-superior-to-aperol-spritz-h1jm5q, https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/septa-bus-fee-transfer-poverty-transit-pew-study-20190724.html, https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/how-to-pay-and-where-to-buy-tickets-and-oyster/travelcards-and-group-tickets, Todays Headlines Streetsblog California, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Settlement_Plan, http://www.caltrain.com/Fares/tickettypes/GO_Pass.html, Op-Ed: What America Gets Wrong about Fare Evasion Streetsblog USA, News roundup: Happy Thanksgiving Seattle Transit Blog, Cops on Public Transportation | Pedestrian Observations, The Port Authoritys New Fare Policy is an Improvement Connect-PGH, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/southern-rail-failure-crush-unions, https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/18/free-public-transportation/#comment-61991, We Gave a Talk About Our Construction CostsReport, Burning the Midnight Oil for Energy Independence, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Akron, Cleveland Arts And Livable City Blog, Jim Aloisi, Trimount Consulting and Board Member at TransitMatters. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The Swiss at least do zonal fares with monthly passes. Philadelphias SEPTA system is an object lesson in how NOT to design a fare system. Paris RER-A (the direct equivalent of CrossRail) opened in 1977 and today carries 300m pax p.a.. Today Paris has 5 RER lines which carry more than 1bn pax p.a.. About 44 years later, and 75 years after it was first proposed, CrossRail will cost north of 18bn and the scale of opportunity cost that can only be imagined. 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. Of all the oddities thrown up by rail privatisation, this must rank among the oddest: a train company in the business of running fewer trains. In Paris on the RER I cant tell I believe its three figures of which the first is a 1. And if you need proof just try asking Londoners versus Parisians about their own systems. Also, one of the 5 key points of the Williams review into their rail system: a new commercial model: Williams argues the current franchising model has had its day and is holding the sector back, stifling collaboration, preventing the railway from operating as a cohesive network and encouraging train operators to prioritise narrow commercial interest over passengers. They immediately made me feel at ease and left no stone unturned in order to achieve a successful conclusion to mycase. And I speak as a transit user. The whole situation was resolved very quickly in just over a week and much to my relief I received a warning for forgetting to tap in, rather than a prosecution and a criminal record. This is why the big % of habituals are male. And probably linked in to ICE. In any case, major capital investment will always involve the government, but that is largely irrelevant for questions about using existing infrastructure efficiently. My understanding of the legal system is they get to claim some sort of tax rebate for what they pay for employee passes so the cost in a round about way goes to the government. But I think those differences have eroded by now. In Switzerland, where consolidated fares have been in existence for more than a century, there are regular passenger counts. Britain generally overuses faregates, for example on the commuter trains in London. They were technically convenient before modern technology (and thus motivated historically), but today there is no excuse to not have payments per trip, and per distance (and preferably also extra in rush hour). Japan has a norm of subsidized commuting costs (mostly employer subsidized, but the amount of government subsidy increases as income increases since it comes as a tax benefit), and while its cool that people can and do commute via Shinkansen from exurbs over 100km from the city center, I dont think that is behavior the government should promote. Just please stop being ridiculous. being applied to NYC-MTA. Geez. If you've been prosecuted and weren't aware,find out how to appeal. We have a great deal of experience in this area and have had consistent success in settling these matters out of court, avoiding a criminal record. On Monday, Democratic legislators pitched a new system decriminalizing fare evasion on public transit statewide, making the offense a petty misdemeanor, similar to a Oh, and the new companies will of course order the cheapest rolling stock they can find which will mean Chinese, which in turn will reduce the profitability and scale etc of Alstom and Siemens (which arent allowed to merge to effectively compete against the likes of even more massively state-subsidised China rail companies). Typically, trips are charged by distance and are regarded as fair by the majority of users. We have utilized this guidance to seek to persuade TFL to reach an out of Court Settlement with many of our clients. (But not enough. We base such a policy on international examples wherein commuting costs are also born by employers, the state, or a combination of employer, state and commuter.