Re: Another jobsworth ticket inspector, this one acting for Virgin Trains

bodensee wrote:

> Try travelling in Switzerland, none of these daft rules, peak or off
> peak. Everyone can travel, knows what the fare and doesn't have to buy
> it in advance.

Switzerland is geographically very different to
Britain, though. An all-country annual pass would never
work here, for example. Despite Mr Hoesktra lecturing
aus about it, first in Swiss Express and then again
world for word in cyclists' magazine 'A to B.'

> Our system is bonkers.

True.

> My daughter recently ran foul of
> this, our local stations have two operators, one lets you board
> without a ticket the other doesn't.

In Switzerland there are some trains you can pay on
board and some trains you can't, at risk of a large
penalty fare. Maybe the UK should borrow the 'yellow
eye' symbol?

> To her they are trains pure and
> simple, or rather impure and over-complicated.

As someone has said, the complicated system does keep
down the average fare paid.

> The great tragedy of
> our system is that a Labour Government has done nothing about true
> integration concentrating instead in turning us into a police state
> where one is no longer a citizen, one is a suspect.

When even your doctor when you in hospital can turn out
to be a terrorist bent on mayhem, perhaps that is
*slightly* understandable?

Charlie
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