For all California’s bluster, they’ve spent 10s of billions of dollars and laid not a single km of track.
@Humpleupagus @rubberducky @silas I have heard that people in California can just not pay their fare and they will suffer no consequences for it. Is this true?
Based on what I heard someone who moved from California say "Why are people worried about paying? They are not allowed to stop you from getting on even if you do not have a ticket."
@Humpleupagus @houseoftolstoy @rubberducky well. What. Get good?
The 100% federal government owned train company here has been profitable for pretty long. Until covid.
And then it hasn't recovered from that even still.
And its a pretty badly run network too annoyingly. With not being on time. And having a mixed rail network sucks too. Super slow ans super fast trains sharing all tracks sucks
@Humpleupagus @houseoftolstoy @rubberducky sure but I am talking about how it is here
@Humpleupagus @houseoftolstoy @rubberducky get baited, retard
@Humpleupagus @houseoftolstoy @rubberducky @silas suddenly I’m remembering the scene in Indiana Jones where Indy threw the German dude out of the zeppelin and explained to the shocked passengers: “No ticket”
at which point they all waved their tickets in the air
sometimes the obvious and simple solution is the correct one
@Humpleupagus @houseoftolstoy @rubberducky thankfully I live in a civilised country
@houseoftolstoy @Humpleupagus @rubberducky theres moves going on here in germany to get pentalties for riding without a valid ticket.
because theres several ways to get cheap tickets. if you cant afford it, you are probably not well off at all. and the job of the law is not "punch down".
its probably going to work because we barely have any turnstiles and no issues with people not paying fares.
so far