How I got 100% off my train travel
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How I got 100% off my train travel
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Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#2There is a slightly less ethical way to do this, you buy a ticket that mows you to travel at any time of day. Then when you have made your trip log on to realtimetrains to find a train on your route that was delayed and then claim that as your journey.
Now your ticket is sometimes scanned when you enter or leave a station but this is rare and even less likely to be scanned on the train by a conductor.
Anyway that is something that someone could do
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#3There is a slightly less ethical way to do this, you buy a ticket that mows you to travel at any time of day. Then when you have made your trip log on to realtimetrains to find a train on your route that was delayed and then claim that as your journey. Now your ticket is sometimes scanned when you enter or leave a station but this is rare and even less likely to be scanned on the train by a conductor. Anyway that is…
I know people who have done this, but in my mind this is not simply slightly less ethical, is is active fraud.
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#4Where I live, in the US, the income from light rail fair payers is a laughably small portion of the operating budget, so all rides are effectively discounted by 90%+. The fares really only exist to keep homeless people from sheltering on the trains, but they do that anyway, without a ticket.
Somehow the prices are still high enough that it's cheaper to buy a cheap used car and drive it instead.
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#5There is a slightly less ethical way to do this, you buy a ticket that mows you to travel at any time of day. Then when you have made your trip log on to realtimetrains to find a train on your route that was delayed and then claim that as your journey. Now your ticket is sometimes scanned when you enter or leave a station but this is rare and even less likely to be scanned on the train by a conductor. Anyway that is…
I know people who have done this, but in my mind this is not simply slightly less ethical, is is active fraud.
Your mind is correct.
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#6There is a slightly less ethical way to do this, you buy a ticket that mows you to travel at any time of day. Then when you have made your trip log on to realtimetrains to find a train on your route that was delayed and then claim that as your journey. Now your ticket is sometimes scanned when you enter or leave a station but this is rare and even less likely to be scanned on the train by a conductor. Anyway that is…
I know people who have done this, but in my mind this is not simply slightly less ethical, is is active fraud.
Reminds me of the "Chase Infinite Money Glitch" micro fad from last year. Turns out fraud really is pathway to many forms of free goods the law would consider illegal.
Wonder how many people wound up getting hit with check fraud charges off of that...
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#7This seems the perfect setup for malicious compliance of arbitrary RTO policies.
* You may very well be more productive on a quiet train than a noisy office
* Inconsistent WiFi coverage could let you focus on work instead of video conferencing meetings
* Arriving late means you don’t have to stay long - not your fault the train was delayed, after all!
Your employer gets the badge data showing you technically showed up, you have the receipts on why you were late, and you get a partial or full refund on the delayed train fare for good measure.
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#8The UK train system is a dire, expensive mess. Attempting to avoid getting directly political here, but I strongly believe it’s one of the lowest hanging fruit a political party could act on to curry favour with the electorate.
Would be amazing to see this productised à la the way split ticketing works.
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#9Where I live, in the US, the income from light rail fair payers is a laughably small portion of the operating budget, so all rides are effectively discounted by 90%+. The fares really only exist to keep homeless people from sheltering on the trains, but they do that anyway, without a ticket. Somehow the prices are still high enough that it's cheaper to buy a cheap used car and drive it instead.
> Somehow the prices are still high enough that it's cheaper to buy a cheap used car and drive it instead.
Cars are even more heavily subsidized, maybe?
Re: How I got 100% off my train travel
#10Where I live, in the US, the income from light rail fair payers is a laughably small portion of the operating budget, so all rides are effectively discounted by 90%+. The fares really only exist to keep homeless people from sheltering on the trains, but they do that anyway, without a ticket. Somehow the prices are still high enough that it's cheaper to buy a cheap used car and drive it instead.
Find this curious. Surely factoring in the cost of tax and insurance greatly increases the cost of the used car? I'm based in Europe so perhaps things are radically different in the US.