In the last year, I've been through over a dozen cities and used public transport in all of them. It is wild just how confusing and complex buying a ticket can be. While some cities obviously take a user-centred approach to ticketing, others appear to take a Kafkaesque delight in a bureaucratic maze of zones, apps, and intricate restrictions. One of the seminal texts in computer systems design…
  • Mrsilkworm@piefed.socialEnglish
    53·
    8 天前
    1. Public transport should be free for all the citizens and paid for tourists visitors.
    2. Citizens should get a free pass card and tourist a top up card.
    3. An open source web app should be available with lines and timetables, and everything should be anonymized.
    4. Public transport should be funded from fuel taxes, car registration taxes and rich people
    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
      15·
      8 天前
      1. Public transport should be free for all the citizens and paid for tourists visitors.

      That’s an awful idea. Why would you maintain payment infrastructure to collect fares from so few people? It wouldn’t even pay for itself, it’s just bad for everyone involved and no one would benefit.

    • tyranny@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      5·
      8 天前

      i agree that this sounds nice, my one quibble would be with regards to citizenship. i fear in trying to discriminate against tourists, you’d actually be penalising vulnerable marginalised people who don’t have citizenship in their own country. if the goal is to reduce car use, i think some tourists getting a free ride is worth it

      • Mrsilkworm@piefed.socialEnglish
        14·
        7 天前

        citizens should have right to use free public transport. Tourists and visitors should pay in order to keep transportation free for the citizens. There is a debate in Europe (where I live) about the pressure of tourism and the additional cost that tourism creates especially in housing and the cost of living. So this is one way to migirate the problem of cost of living.

    • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      8 天前

      Bimba is almost 3 in most places, using the Transitous API as its back end.