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Ah I was planning to look into this, glad to hear it's possible to self-generate a pass. My gym requires subscribers to use their app-generated QR code for entry. I have been using the same QR screenshot for the past 2 years to avoid pulling up the app every time. But even the screenshot takes more time to find in Photos than I would like to.
For anyone wanting to do something like this on an Android phone, there is Catima (on Google Play and FDroid), which supports many types of barcodes. https://catima.app/
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I wonder how much it costs to maintain a system to collect fares compared the small portion of funding most transit systems would lose from going fare free.
Going fare free would induce demand which would increase operating costs, so it's not that simple.
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For a city you don't visit often--especially if you're going to a bunch of cities on the trip--dealing with transit apps/cards/etc. that are specific to the city is a royal pain. I'm fine if it's a city I visit regularly--I have an Oyster card for London that I've had for a number of years. In general, though, I'd rather default to using a credit card.
In Japan at least, IC cards seem to be accepted at most cities in the country. Eg you can get a suica card (on your phone) and use it in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. Not to mention at 7-11 and most vending machines.
The keywords one should be looking for is Osaifu-Ketai.
iPhones are the exception, and just takes some finnicking with the settings.
You can just scan it with a barcode scanner like Binary Eye [1] and it will tell you
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I first heard of it from the transit union here in Seattle when they axed the downtown free bus zone like 10 years ago. There was some vague mention of the bus drivers in ... somewhere in Texas... like 30 years before that. Beyond that I haven't heard much of it because as I understand it, there isn't much free transit anywhere big.
May I introduce you to the country of Luxembourg that offers free public transport - admittedly one of the smallest nations in Europe in area (2,586.4 km2 (998.6 sq mi)) and population (660,809), but bigger than many cities.
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I first heard of it from the transit union here in Seattle when they axed the downtown free bus zone like 10 years ago. There was some vague mention of the bus drivers in ... somewhere in Texas... like 30 years before that. Beyond that I haven't heard much of it because as I understand it, there isn't much free transit anywhere big.
May I introduce you to the country of Luxembourg that offers free public transport - admittedly one of the smallest nations in Europe in area (2,586.4 km2 (998.6 sq mi)) and population (660,809), but bigger than many cities.
This app allows you to simply enter a number (or scan an existing barcode), choose a barcode type (with lots of options, including Codabar!), and save it. Selecting the entry on the app's main screen shows the generated barcode and does the screen-brightening thing. Also the app opens super fast because presumably it doesn't do anything but, you know, displaying barcodes.
It has only one purpose but it may well be my most favourite app. I've even used it to transfer a barcode from some label in the supermarket to the self-checkout post, where for some reason the supermarket assumed that you use the hand-held self-scanning devices that I also don't like.
EDIT: it seems they want you to use Catima instead these days. Trying it briefly it's similarly simple, and seems to be based on the same codebase.
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Depending on the agency it’s not very small. New York MTA has a farebox recovery of about 40-50% in any given year, and few people or organizations could stomach a pay cut of half without serious damage.
It seems like a city with a ~$2 trillion economy could afford to fund the transit system that enables it without fare boxes.