They don't use POP on buses either dude, just the same fare media they use on the trains
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Replying to @380kmh
My point is that Japan's buses are not extremely high ridership, so slow fare payment is not as much of an issue
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Replying to @380kmh
It's not the tapping that's an issue, it's the fact that you have to line up single-file like kindergartners to board what might an articulated bus
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Replying to @MarketUrbanism
Then it's a case for trains--not for letting everyone on for free, which will all but guarantee that high ridership never translates into higher-capacity service
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Replying to @380kmh
Just because you say "letting everyone on for free" doesn't make it true
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Replying to @MarketUrbanism
Fair, lemme rephrase: facilitating fare evasion all but guarantees that high ridership never translates into higher-capacity service
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Replying to @380kmh
It is empirically not facilitating fare evasion because fare evasion does not go up with PoP
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Replying to @MarketUrbanism
I guess I'm just seeing red after seeing people gloating about it--POP may not facilitate fare evasion, but fare evaders certainly prefer POP. Any POP systems that actually turn a profit out there? MTR in Kowloon, maybe parts of the German network?
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Replying to @380kmh
But anyway, letting your emotions govern fare collection is a recipe for buses in dense cities that are slower than walking
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Using buses when ridership is at train levels is a recipe for going slower than you should--even if you do manage to beat a walking pace by using POP. If train-worthy ridership is only coughing up bus-worthy fares, well....
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