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Originally Posted by Daradon
I do wonder that if making the fines too high it will actually bring in less money because people simply won't pay it.
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I wonder what percentage of the tickets actually get paid?
I like the system they have in Germany. The ticket checkers aren't in uniform, they just carry an ID card, and if you get caught without a valid fare, the fine is 40 €, payable on the spot.
I traveled around Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic for three weeks last fall, and they all have a similar honor-system with checks that Calgary Transit uses, and I was only checked one time. So, it would have been cheaper to just pay the 40 € fine one time than paying the fare each time.
The one time I did get checked, he caught someone just a few seats away. The guy who was caught was an older man who was very angry about it. When the train stopped at the next station, they both got off, and the last I saw of them, the guy was loudly arguing with the ticket checker, and every time he stopped talking, the ticket checker would just say "Vierzig Euro".