I just got in a ticket control on the local public transport. No problem, since I have a general abonnement. What I wonder about these controls is why you can always recognize the guys doing the control instantly when you enter the bus? They are clothed in civil, talk casually and generally behave inconspicuously. So what is it? My guess is, that they just don't look like people who would normally take a bus. This is weird, I can't describe the typical bus rider but it seems like these guys don't match.
I hear that the Zurich public transport is more sophisticated, a friend reporting that she was once surprised one evening by two twenty-something girls perfectly dressed for a party suddenly turning around and asking for the tickets. Well, maybe this was only a clever trick to earn some extra cash :-)
I just had a ticket control in Rome (Italy). It is even worse there. The controlling men there have a special uniforme, so you recognize them even faster. So the only matter you have is to keep an empty ticket with you, and if some controlleurs are in the bus just stamp it, if not, keep the ticket for the next time...(Well I think it is not meant like that). But the control in Switzerland seems to be rather sophisticated in comparison to other countries :-)
Posted by: Denis at October 1, 2003 11:58 AM