Our metro system spend as much in salary and infrastructure designed to make sure you pay tickets than the money from the actual ticket sales.

So basically you're paying tickets to have bareers and controllers. And then you pay taxes to run trains.

It's fucking racket.

Yup, I'm very much a proponent of making public transport free/tax based - don't need fucking controllers and other nannies then and more people would probably use it

@BordedDev I’m for it. But this won’t happen because it would mean lots of people will lose their jobs.

@Lensflare Yup, can't forget about the people making ads for how bad you are evil for not using public transport

@Lensflare I would rather pay for people unemployment and not get the same people harassing my wife because one of THEM let her in without checking her ticket.

THEY let her in without tickets (she was lost in the station, it's a big interchange) and then THEY fined her for not having VALIDATED her tickets. So she had a whole card, that she paid, and that she had to use to get out of the station, she wasn't trying to defraud anything.

Motherfuckers

@ANTIASYLUMIST sounds to me like your wife should not be left unattended in public places. just like you.

Come to London man, you’ll be able to enjoy the racket in Belgium then.

@tosensei you do not speak badly about the woman I love, bitch. She did nothing wrong and she's ten time the person you'll ever dream to be.

yeah that's how one world government will be also

@Lensflare not about their jobs. controlling people and making them feel like peasants is the feature they desire. and they get to do it with your money, bonus!

@tosensei are you volunteering to be a nanny. you sure have a lot of free time for a nanny

Public transport is a service.

It costs money; it does not generate profit.

If they can match salaries with ticket sales, it's already good.

@NoToJavaScript they wouldn't have to match it if they didn't hire an army of guy to harass people and pay tickets. If you take the money for these automatic doors and the ticketing and the people who sell them and the controllers, it costs as much as all the money from tickets and suscription combined.

Then the people who run the actual trains are paid by our taxes

@ANTIASYLUMIST you do have a point and that would be highly efficient

ever since my city got the train police the tickets have been getting very expensive and the metro is still losing money... it's so stupid

we have violent hobos now though. what about those?

you still need people to clean the trains at the end in case people spill stuff or had puked drunk. but the ticket police is stupid. should just do taxes. basically everyone in the city takes the metro twice a day anyway. like 1.7 million people and 3 million rides a day lol

but the French hate the English and this city has a lot of English and they're trying to kill us by cutting off funding so they would never do it