http://dtraleigh.com/2010/03/fareless-transit-ideas/ A Downtown Raleigh Blog Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://dtraleigh.com/2010/03/fareless-transit-ideas/#comment-3407 Gannon Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:09:34 +0000 http://dtraleigh.com/?p=1896#comment-3407 My main problem with fares is that they hold up the bus, which doesn't help the system's punctuality. I like Germany's system, where you just get on and are assumed to have already paid your fare with a daily, weekly, or monthly ticket. If you don't have a ticket yet, there's a machine behind the driver so he/she doesn't have to wait for you. Every couple months, a plainclothes agent will check all tickets on the bus. Those who don't have one get fined $50. My main problem with fares is that they hold up the bus, which doesn’t help the system’s punctuality. I like Germany’s system, where you just get on and are assumed to have already paid your fare with a daily, weekly, or monthly ticket. If you don’t have a ticket yet, there’s a machine behind the driver so he/she doesn’t have to wait for you. Every couple months, a plainclothes agent will check all tickets on the bus. Those who don’t have one get fined $50.

]]> http://dtraleigh.com/2010/03/fareless-transit-ideas/#comment-3403 Elphaba Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:46:16 +0000 http://dtraleigh.com/?p=1896#comment-3403 Renn's article is great and I agree wholeheartedly, but citing Chapel Hill Transit as a "good" example of being fare-free is stretching it a bit in my opinion. Chapel Hill Transit, along with NCSU's Wolfline are fare-free and "open to the public" as a condition of receiving certain federal funds. So while fare-free is a great ideas, CHT isn't exactly doing it out of the kindness of their hearts for the greater good. That said, I'm still glad they're doing it. Renn’s article is great and I agree wholeheartedly, but citing Chapel Hill Transit as a “good” example of being fare-free is stretching it a bit in my opinion. Chapel Hill Transit, along with NCSU’s Wolfline are fare-free and “open to the public” as a condition of receiving certain federal funds. So while fare-free is a great ideas, CHT isn’t exactly doing it out of the kindness of their hearts for the greater good. That said, I’m still glad they’re doing it.

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