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In article <DsL9sH.J3q@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
tbs3y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Captain Tristan Siegel  LAW III) wrote:

> OK, so how about the L.A. Metro's answer to admission systems.
> No tokens.  No farecards.
> 
> You just buy a little ticket that you keep in your pocket to
> prove you paid your fare.  There is no entrance system.  You
> just walk in and sit down.  No one asks for your ticket when
> you get in, but the "conductors" walk up and down periodically
> asking to see your ticket.  It's basically an honor system, but
> with high fines if you get caught cheating.

        Of course, if the LA system were actually running anywhere close
to capacity, like New York and DC, there would be no room on the trains
for the conductors to walk through. Hell, in NY at rush hour even if the
conductor managed to ask someone on a train for their ticket, odds are
they're jammed in tight enough that they can't get their hand to their
pocket. The only reason that system works in LA is because the train isn't
operating at anywhere near capacity. Remember, the NY system used to use
tickets also, but abandoned the idea when the system became so heavily
used that the cost of turnstiles was still more efficient than tickets...
                                                -JMP

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