feline1
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Two or three times in recent years I've travelled to Frankfurt (by rail from Brighton, of course) to attend enormous Musikmesse music trade fair.
As part of the admission ticket you get free travel for the duration on the regional and city public transport (!)
One thing that struck me about Frankfurt's public transport (U-bahn, S-bahn, ....) is that there are no ticket barriers!
You can just walk on to their tubes and trams!
Yet people seem to respect them and still pay their fares.
They authorities just trust them!
Could such a system ever work in the UK?
As part of the admission ticket you get free travel for the duration on the regional and city public transport (!)
One thing that struck me about Frankfurt's public transport (U-bahn, S-bahn, ....) is that there are no ticket barriers!
You can just walk on to their tubes and trams!
Yet people seem to respect them and still pay their fares.
They authorities just trust them!
Could such a system ever work in the UK?