So, I dont have a problem with the Octopus type card as long as it keeps transit relatively cheap and easy, for those who use it the most. So there is, or at least was, that kind of enforcement on this issue. Change). Highly recommend this firm, Jim was excellent and settled the case very quickly NA October 2021, I am so very grateful to Mr Skelsey who was incredibly professional and thorough when handling my case. 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. Sometimes the police are called. The difference being that the far right sees this as a reason to hate transit and the far left as a reason to support it. We can see this in big cities built in the age of the car like LA, US sunbelt cities, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. I wouldnt say that, most people are commuting from the suburbs to the center city, so on weekends the pass can be used to visit the center for shopping, cultural events, etc, not to mention any intermediate destinations along the route. The question boils down to how New York crowding levels compare with those on the busiest urban POP line, the Munich S-Bahn trunk. Nordic public transport is generally based on German practice, but this is an exception. If you do The bottom line of the Pew study is that commuters who are able to use the Key pay one of the lowest per-trip costs among major transit agencies, while those who cant are forced to pay one of the highest fares a particularly egregious example of what many economists call the poor tax. However Sydney had a horrendously complex British style system, and worse buses and ferries were different (and it was intended to integrate everything), and eventually they couldnt do it under the contract constraints (it was part of the reason they went bust). Which brings us to casuals, Casual fare evasion is a thing done by normal people, regardless of age/money/class. The governor is proposing to spend more on fare enforcement than the MTA can ever hope to extract. Andy Byford, New York Citys transit president, has maintained that fares are crucial in improving rider experience. ts not about maximising milk, its about minimising potential moo., And thats ALSO why youll see TfL/National Rail come down HEAVILY in the courts on anyone with real money who evades (e.g. Solicitors Fromstartto finish, my claim was dealt veryprofessionally. These are the exact opposite of your econometric analysis. Almost everyone in regular employment in Ile de France would have such a card. Passport-size photos, applications, visiting the ticket office. I see this as just an additional argument for lower fares off-peak. This is why the big % of habituals are male. We're pleased to announce the launch of our new booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk, which helps support the So does London https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/how-to-pay-and-where-to-buy-tickets-and-oyster/travelcards-and-group-tickets. My tickets were purchased six weeks in advance and were second class non-reserved and off-peak and this is supposed to be the cheapest option. cheaper transit promoting sprawl. In his acclaimed book on the creation of modern Australia, Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes noted that this nation was founded as a dumping ground for criminals whom the motherland ejected nevertheless rapidly turned into one of the most law-abiding nations on earth. Learn how your comment data is processed. You can sometimes find left-populists here who promise great fare reductions, but these just soak up subsidies that could go to better service. Do I need to blog about fare regulations? So its not really that Berlin doesnt care if criminals discourage ridership among law-abiding customers, its that Berlin doesnt treat every rider as a criminal who must constantly be watched and monitored. And also that Caltrain may realize based on the new data whether they should be charging participating employers more or less, etc. Instead, they create huge unnecessary demand by making the marginal cost of a trip 0, that often just replace a walk or a bike trip, in a system that did not encourage you to not pay the cost for each journey you make. Germany is very law-abiding in stereotype. AAR (August 2107), BSB Solicitors are a company you can definitely put your trust in. Its in the budget. Thats not the way real people actually use a Metro system (well maybe London where you might expect to get hit with an unexpected big bill depending on trip length, time of travel blah, blah.) 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. In todays Guardian. In the US, trip chaining by car is relatively painless because of land use, highways, and ubiquitous parking. Of course with a monthly or unlimited-travel card, one doesnt think about it at all. If I am riding home from work and I stop at a bookstore, thats an extra fare, but its also an extra peak trip. 70% of department 77 Seine-et-Marne) and has huge forests and national parks (eg. Which surprised quite a few people that night. 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. An index standardized for age shows that crime rates are 48% higher among male immigrants and 140% higher among male descendants of immigrants. London has a card like HKs but no one would call it a travel bargain being at minimum twice as expensive as Paris. Call us on 020 7837 3456 for private 24/7 Emergency Legal Advice and a confidential consultation. I then received a letterfrom Tfl saying that I was summoned to court forfare evasion. N.A (April 2017), Stay up to date with Criminal Law with BSB Solicitors, BSB solicitors, 2 John Street, Also, how do you cite someone who doesnt have ID? Its because the software can only remember so many trips, right? As someone with a lot at stake and was extremely anxious about the outcome of my case, the final result was better than what I was expecting. On many buses, drivers just let it go and let passengers board without paying, especially if nearly all passengers are connecting from the subway and therefore have already paid, as on the B1 between the Brighton Beach subway station and Kingsborough Community College or on the buses to LaGuardia. fremont hospital deaths; what happened to tropical tidbits; chris herren speaking fee; boracay braids cultural appropriation; tfl fare evasion settle out of court. Stores dont have gates. London, WC1N 2ES | 020 7837 3456. And its part of the largest train franchise in Britain, Govia Thameslink. For smaller municipalities, transit should be free. Is France really going to repeat this nonsense? Try cutting the breakeven point to something starting with a 3 instead. Likewise, even though the Helsinki Metro is profitable, it works in conjunction with buses, trams, and commuter trains that are not, its just that theres an imputation of revenues by mode/operator offered in Helsinki and (sort of) Berlin but not in Paris. if you dont have them, lots of people, and not just affluent whites, are going to stay away. Double and triple merde. Are you aware of the kind of thing they subjected Season Ticket holders to from the Home Counties? This is an issue where my main methodology for making recommendations for Americans looking at peer developed countries is especially useful. In most cities roads are not priced properly and the transport system is a broken market in general. They immediately made me feel at ease and left no stone unturned in order to achieve a successful conclusion to mycase. In Seattle, we have an unusual situation. But yeah, the moralistic response on the left of treating fare evasion as something good (esp. Making regular use more expensive will do the exact opposite of tempting them. Beyond population density, efficiency is an important reason why transit is so cheap in East Asia. Charging thousands of pounds per year but travellers being forced to stand the entire (hour long) journey? I was lucky to find BSB Solicitorswho helped me with my case. i.e. 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. He was just pointing out a common activist position on transit in the United States. 2) BART has had teen-gang problems, where a dozen kids hop the fare gates, rob/assault the passengers, and leave en-mass at the next stop over the gates before any law enforcement appears. This was a great result and I could not be more grateful. These costs should therefore be understood as hidden taxes: they fall disproportionately on commuters and on the public purse, and benefit employers. its the poor who suffer from more from dirty streets and parks. More recently, it trialed a new turnstile design that would hit passengers in the face, but thankfully scrapped it after public outcry. Transport forLondon and most of the other railprovidersusually write to an individual who they suspect of fare evasion, asking them to respond to the allegation. 3) Lost revenue from passengers avoiding system due to crime can be inferred via a safety survey. Unfortunately, the problem of indifference to monthlies on urban rail is common around the Anglosphere. Because the industry pushes such solutions onto the operators, and considering that the responsible ones have not much of a clue, they fall for it and get screwed. There are various statistical ways of determining how much each agency should receive of that monthly pass. In Hong Kong MTR system, with both the gated heavy rail system and open access light rail system, the operator have employed a lot of additional fare inspector at all stations, to the point multiple of them are visible at every ticket gate, trying to curb down any attempts at undermining the systems revenue, following a trend of distrust against the political stance in operation of the MTR system. *Except in the actual immigrant nations of USA, Canada and Australia where crime rates are lower in immigrants! As you wrote, passengers should be able to get on and off trains quickly, with minimum friction. Fare evasion rate on Hong Kongs open, non-gated, LRT system in year 2002-2005 was said to be only 0.4%, but there doesnt seems to be any more updated data. It is you who is artificially creating a them versus us war, which is reminiscent of London where there is definitely a class that would never use the Underground. Personally Id rather SNCF hired from Keolis and not from Air France, While the fine for fare dodging is indeed 60 thats for a first time offense. Ditto public urination; it exists in Berlin, but not in elevators Ive seen men do it at night on the side of the secondary entrance to the S-Bahn at Neuklln (which is more or less the poorest area inside the Ring), but the area smells fine, so I suspect that either its not common enough to be a public health hazard or theres regular cleaning. Like the time an older African-American woman got pissed off about younger African-American woman having a White boyfriend and decide to take it out on me, subjecting me to big rant on why African-American women can only really be sexually pleased by African-American men while hitting me with a plastic bottle. In fact, I think most US cities should be fareless anyway since their farebox contribution to revenue is so low. long-term transit passes are for travel between an exact combination of two stations only, and are essentially useless for anything besides commuting. And on the other hand, by the relatively frictionless Paris and French system. Transit agencies should aim at a fare system, including enforcement, that allows passengers to get on and off trains quickly, with minimum friction. Menu and widgets 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. 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. WebOur fare evasion solicitors are familiar working with the major train and bus companies in England. For Ile de France the versement transport VT payroll tax has at times funded 40% of StiFs operational costs (I dont know how that breaks down for different modes) and it sounded like they were proposing something like that for the UK. A criminal conviction can negatively affect job prospects, particularly in certain fields and can impact visa applications to some countries. Michal James, 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. As part of a new campaign to combat fare evasion, the MTA hired new cops to police the subway. Have you noticed that the new boss of SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou, was formerly boss of French Keolis? I could see onboard payment systems going away. This would be different from London, where Underground makes a sizable profit, and Overground about breaks even. Why should systems like the Washington Metro spend money to tear down their faregates and adopt Proof of payment, spending money to make it easier to avoid paying the fare? I had been using it for a few weeks when I was stopped by aticket inspector. Poor policing, public housing with anti social tennants etc etc, So spare me the must not have moral standards dictated to from the rich, because that includes you. 1) BART has distance-based fares. Sendai for instance is very much concrete before electronics/operations. Its $127 now and 127/4 has a 32-trip breakeven. 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. https://www.traveller.com.au/traveller-letters-campari-spritz-is-far-superior-to-aperol-spritz-h1jm5q (LogOut/ WebHow do I write a TFL fare evasion out-of-court settlement letter? 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: The entire Tokyo metro area has a population density of 2642 people per sq km, whereas Paris has a population density of 1010 people per sq km. because it is so easy to do. Of course efficiency is important but it is not achieved by those approaches, no matter how theory predicts it. We are seeing violence directed at transit systems around the world which weve discussed here recently (link below). Or elect Corbyn.). Finally, as to user satisfaction, you may well be correct if youre talking of the Brits/Londoners. The local newspaper reports how other commuters have missed work so often, theyve lost their job; how students have missed exams or holidaymakers havent made flights. Double that figure, and the average number of commuting trips is 44 to 46. UK.ManchesterLiverpool2578% Say a 25% discount on each trip after 20 trips, and a 50% discount after 35 trips. R.H August (2018), I would definitely recommend BSB Solicitors. We are seeing more an more examples of clients being @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..