Sure, no problem. I'll be glad to talk about this in person when you like.
Yeah, no cash on board is a trend. I don't like it, but it definitely saves on staff costs.
Off the top of my head:
London went no-cash on buses a couple of years ago, and the UK in general had gone no-cash on rail a while back.
Oslo had big signs everywhere on the trains and platforms announcing that conductors would no longer be accepting payment on board and a penalty fare would be assessed; they switched over to no-cash on rail in the recent past and it was clear that the transition needed a lot of public education. I think they were already no-cash on buses, but I don't know when that happened.
Helsinki was similar but I think they did the transition earlier.
Stockholm is no-cash on pendeltåg (commuter rail) but they put turnstiles at every station (that I could see) and have a flat fare throughout their rather extensive network, so it functions like an enormous Metro. My memory is that they don't take cash on buses, either.
Dubai never took cash on buses, but as they were a new system they didn't have any user education to do.
I'm pretty sure all of France and Italy is cashless on the trains because they've both had those "compostage de billet" ticket stamp machines on the platforms for a long time. I think you may still be able to buy tickets on board most Italian city buses at a higher fare, but they may have pushed that off to the traditional third-party vendors.
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Date: 2018-12-14 06:31 pm (UTC)Yeah, no cash on board is a trend. I don't like it, but it definitely saves on staff costs.
Off the top of my head:
London went no-cash on buses a couple of years ago, and the UK in general had gone no-cash on rail a while back.
Oslo had big signs everywhere on the trains and platforms announcing that conductors would no longer be accepting payment on board and a penalty fare would be assessed; they switched over to no-cash on rail in the recent past and it was clear that the transition needed a lot of public education. I think they were already no-cash on buses, but I don't know when that happened.
Helsinki was similar but I think they did the transition earlier.
Stockholm is no-cash on pendeltåg (commuter rail) but they put turnstiles at every station (that I could see) and have a flat fare throughout their rather extensive network, so it functions like an enormous Metro. My memory is that they don't take cash on buses, either.
Dubai never took cash on buses, but as they were a new system they didn't have any user education to do.
I'm pretty sure all of France and Italy is cashless on the trains because they've both had those "compostage de billet" ticket stamp machines on the platforms for a long time. I think you may still be able to buy tickets on board most Italian city buses at a higher fare, but they may have pushed that off to the traditional third-party vendors.