• Katana314@lemmy.world
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      I don’t know anywhere where you don’t need some form of ticket. Granted, various cities have different forms of convenience to make it practical.

      In Boston, I know of some forms of transit that are free - because a specific business is paying for it to drive commerce, because the transit authority temporarily wants to promote it to reduce traffic, or because it’s undergoing a temporary change in operation and ticket collection would be inconvenient.

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          1 year ago

          Well, right, but even you are using the word “ticket”. The one up in this screenshot seems like it’s at least mostly automated. A rose by any name I guess.

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      1 year ago

      yeah it’s usually only like a dollar or two and takes a few seconds

      guessing the 10-ride ticket costs more

      you have to charge per ticket because americans are unwilling to raise taxpayer budget for this kind of thing

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          “This public service is too effective and is apparently something a huge number of people are interested in using. Gotta put an end to that.”