Public transportation

Hi Porcospino, it's a great memory in your childhood to experience such an awesome travelling, after service. Moreover passenger was allowed to pay via mail after the ride. Oh my, it's disappointed that culprits who had bad intention to take advantage on this had spoiled this considerate system on account of their greed. If not how nice you still can enjoy such perfect public transportation system Here, since childhood we have to pay before reaching our destination. Every bus there is a conductor to collect bus fare. One will receive different color of ticket with the amount of fare printed on it. Children under age of 6 is free of charge , whereas those under 12 pay only half the price of an adult. Happy posting

In the city i live, you have to buy a ticket first before you can travel in a public mass transit system, for public bus, you are ordered to pay upfront at the entrance of the bus where a collection box is placed next to the driver for the ticket before he will allow you to take your seat. All public transportation in my country is pay first, talk later system, if you don't have any $$ inside your pocket, tough luck! my friend, you need to take a walk with your feet after gotten cuss/lecture from the driver. There is no such thing you get to travel first, pay later type of system in place base solely on your 'honesty', 'conscience', 'legal obligation' or even 'citizenry duty' by expecting the driver will hand you an envelope instead of his warning. All public transportation system here base on one type only, "No money No ride, just take a Walk and Have a nice day " form of system.

On a bus the passenger must pay the total fare to the driver on a modern bus or the bus conductor on an old style bus. The driver would not let the passenger get on the bus if he or she has just one pound thirty and the bus fare is one pound fifty. The best possible thing is another passenger might pay the twenty pence. I am sure the passenger short of money would be ever so grateful. It is possible to get a bus pass at a news agents shop using a debit card. Then the passenger could ride without needing money. Students can get a cut price travel card to ride on the bus to college. At the train station the ticket office is only open early morning two times a week. At other times a ticket machine must be used and it only accepts debit or credit cards. It says it accepts money but it does not. There is a twenty pound fine if the person gets on a train and doesn't have a ticket. The person should find the ticket inspector and ask to buy a ticket. Again the price has to paid there and then.

The older system in your country was excellent. Anybody could travel by bus if he or she had not enough money for the bus fare. That person later could send the fare. Actually for dishonesty of some people we have lost some good system. In our country we have to pay fare before boarding a bus. There is no system to pay later. There is a system of monthly ticket.

In my country, if you do not have money, then you have to walk. Gone are the days whereby the driver will give you the benefits of a doubt and let you ride for free. As for the payment, if you are paying by cashing, then you have to pay when you board. If you are using the stored value card, then you have to tap it when you board and again when you exit. Money will be deducted upon exit.

Hi, Porcospino, this is amazing, I've never seen such a thing! So they believed that people would be honest and send the money for the travel. But as we see every day there are more cheaters than good people. Any way, I have the naive hope that one day it could be just the opposite. And it would be a better world for everybody. But people have to learn that they have interest to be honest... Have a nice time!

It is the same for me where I am; you pay when you are getting on. That is the only way to get admission to any form of public transportation. If you cannot afford it, then you are stuck finding another way to get around. It really is not possible for you to get on the bus without paying. There are trains in which you CAN get on without paying, but I will say that is illegal and you will get ticketed if they happen to check you and see that you in fact did not pay the fare in order to ride. I think that would not work anymore; fact is there are a lot of people who would take advantage of that kind of system and get their "free" rides. I can see why it was stopped in your area because it would just be a way for people to take advantage and in turn make it expensive for the company/city to continue offering the transportation in general.

no, in the city where i live, if you don't have the money right off when you get in, the bus driver will make you get off the bus. because i walk with a quad cane (due to bad knees and fibro) i get to take the bus for free so i always take the bus if i am going out.

Definitely you have to paid the bus fare upfront, otherwise, they won't allow to take the bus. Sometimes, if there is a desperate person who is in need of taking a bus, some people will do a good will, and willing to pay for that particular person's fare. That is what I had seen before, but rarely happen though. You can purchase the monthly card for the transportation fare, and you might get a cheaper rate for it in the U.S.

For me,i always try to bring money when going out in case that i use the public transportation.For the fee of them are pretty low when i was a kid,but nowadays,it's ok now.Most often i try to use the bus coz it's much cheaper than the cab.lol,if i have a car,i think this is the most convenient.

Hello Porcospino, In my country too they ask for the money when one enters in the bus and if you don't have money they would simply ask you to get down from the bus.We never had the system of an envelope.I have been seeing the same system since i have been travelling in the public transport.

There are machines where you can get your ticket. So, no excuses. 10 years ago, we had to buy tickes in stores, so you would ask the driver to stop and get a ticket somewhere along the way.