25 Tokyo Monorail employees caught fare-dodging

[gmat]

Old habits die hard. Before computerized tracking allowed the train companies to better track passenger ticket movements,  gaming of the system was more common.

 

 

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/25-tokyo-monorail-employees-caught-fare-dodging

 

Best wishes,

Grant

[rankodd]

Wow - the example they listed comes up to about $350/mo in fares! That's a pretty high travel tab...

[westfalen]

Here (Queensland Australia) railway employees and their families get what is called privlege rates, used to be quarter full fare but now half fare, and a free pass on annual leave, if you have more than 25 years service (like me, groan) you get a lifetime free pass. I wonder if JR does this, it is rumored to be phased out here as the GO Card, our version of Suica, is phased in. Already we need station staff to swipe us in and out at stations that have automatic gates in operation.

[bikkuri bahn]

Here (Queensland Australia) railway employees and their families get what is called privlege rates, used to be quarter full fare but now half fare, and a free pass on annual leave, if you have more than 25 years service (like me, groan) you get a lifetime free pass. I wonder if JR does this, it is rumored to be phased out here as the GO Card, our version of Suica, is phased in. Already we need station staff to swipe us in and out at stations that have automatic gates in operation.

 

Same here in Sapporo. On the passenger user side of things, with the implementation of a suica-like system, it's much harder to take liberties with the fare structure using the old magnetic season passes, such as the practice of "kiseru josha"

[Guest ___]

DC, employees and their families get free fare or reduce depending on job title and if they are in the same household. Members of Congress and their aids also ride free, though none of them really ever do.