• Vancouver Transit installs faregates after 26 years of service
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[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37308668]Or, just jump over the gates, therefore making them completely useless and a waste of money if someone's not watching.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ewitwins;37308729]In New York or Chicago, you do that and you get tackled.[/QUOTE] In the UK if you do that you get shot. No joke.
Noooo It was working so well, you had your ticket and you didn't have to take it out every 15 seconds
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37308821]Key words: if someone's not watching Even then, there's practically no need to have people watching the gates if they put up a glass barrier between them.[/QUOTE] There are cameras installed in literally every subway station in NYC, and I'm sure it's the same for other large urban areas. Which would lead to this: [QUOTE=mysteryman;37309005]Here in Philadelphia there are ALWAYS either public transport police or actual police posted near faregates. Even if some off chance there is no one there, there is a person behind the glass in the booth that will just call it in, Where the fuck are you going to go? Sure you may make it onto the train/car but they'll just be waiting at the next stop with a description of you.[/QUOTE] I honestly considered jumping a turn style for fun before, but my friend noticed a camera looking directly at the turn styles, and I just figured it'd be better to pay the $2.25 fair than get tackled by police/"good samaritans" and get a fine of something worth scores more than the average fair.
[QUOTE=MIPS;37311776]It's slow, it's noisy, it dead-ends at brighouse unless you demolish the track and rebuild it and all the stations were built for two car trains which are now at capacity only two years after opening. The only way to increase capacity at all is to gut the stations and rebuild them. Damn thing was a total waste of time and a massive fucking waste of money that buttfucked the canbie/granville street corridoor for months. Hell, we had its first snowfall and it couldn't even make it over the bridge. ITT: Don't get me started on the Canada Line.[/QUOTE] Wait what the fuck? You're telling me that not only did construction interrupt traffic, but now that it's complete it's being [b]frequently used?[/b] Waste of money shut it down now :v:
[img]http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/9f3/news/british-columbia/article4479866.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/web-bc-translink14nw1.JPG[/img] Can anyone point out where in this picture the kid gives his fucks? I've been looking for ages
Trains in West Australia only has gates at major stations, all others are an open tag-on system. they send officers on every second train to make sure that everyone tagged on.
I'm going to college and I have to pay for U-Pass so its not going to affect me. Right?
[QUOTE=jordguitar;37313711]ITT: Mips bitching about something all other modern transport systems do already Unless it is 100 percent funded by taxpayers, it is a corporation and guess what, they want your money.[/QUOTE] [quote]The project to add fare gates, a partnership between the Government of Canada, the province and TransLink, is expected to cost $171-million. [B]Of that, up to $40-million will come from the province, up to $30-million from the federal government[/B] and the balance from TransLink.[/quote] [url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/skytrain-gets-its-first-of-many-fare-gates/article4479867/]-source-[/url] Seeing how at least $70 million of this is being paid for by the differently levels of government, I am paying a portion of the bill. Not 100% but regardless I'm paying for something I don't want. We never designed the system for faregates and we never needed them. They only began to push them on us after word spread that since day 1 you could get issued the $175 ticket for not having a transit ticket and there was nothing that enforced the ticket having to be paid (yes, you could rip it up in front of he guy who even issued it and they couldn't do anything to you). Only after they started renovating stations for the faregates did they pass a law that if you got a ticket and you didn't pay, the fine doubled and/or you were denied renewal on your car insurance until the fine was paid. If that loophole didn't exist we probably wouldn't be having this bitchfest right now. [QUOTE=nomad1;37320212]I'm going to college and I have to pay for U-Pass so its not going to affect me. Right?[/QUOTE] I think you have to enroll for the COMPASS card.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;37314095]In the UK if you do that you get shot. No joke.[/QUOTE] What the hell are you talking about? The police aren't even armed with guns in the UK, idiot.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37308668]Or, just jump over the gates, therefore making them completely useless and a waste of money if someone's not watching.[/QUOTE] Yeah I tried running through them once in the town (I live in Australia), not a fucking smart move
[QUOTE=Jacos;37320575]What the hell are you talking about? The police aren't even armed with guns in the UK, idiot.[/QUOTE] Vigilantes dedicated to the preservation of the efficient beauty that is the British Transit System.
[QUOTE=The golden;37320162]Something tells me you're one of those people that just walked onto the Skytrains rather than paying. That, or you don't even live in Vancouver.[/QUOTE] I live in south Langley, $1.75 (student fare) all the way to Richmond is great until you find out you passed the 3 hour mark and you're almost there and need to buy another ticket :S
I live in Vancouver, and I can say that these were seriously needed They had to man the skytrains (basically a cross between a monorail and a train, mostly just a regular train) with police officers every now and then to check tickets. Basically, you'd see a third of the people being handed tickets in your train car. [editline]20th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37308668]Or, just jump over the gates, therefore making them completely useless and a waste of money if someone's not watching.[/QUOTE] There's police officers around most of the time, and the stations get pretty packed at times. You'd probably get stopped by an angry group of people who actually pay for the transit.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;37314095]In the UK if you do that you get shot. No joke.[/QUOTE]Or ambushed by ticket inspectors [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ylEBmOeOR4[/media]
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