Interesting Links for 27-01-2018

[andrewducker]

How Does MoviePass Make Money? We're About to Find Out

(tags: movies money )

The Presidents Club is not the only prestigious men only event

(tags: society men OhForFucksSake )

This Is the Coolest Homemade Lego Millennium Falcon of All Time

(tags: StarWars lego viaSwampers )

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

(tags: numbers )

Six more countries sign multilateral tax treaty instrument to prevent international tax avoidance

(tags: tax GoodNews )

Cape Town runs out of water in 90 days

(tags: water southafrica epicfail )

I subscribe to Ars Technica. If you're interested in tech news you should too

(tags: need money technology )

Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree.

(tags: healthcare jobs patriarchy society OhForFucksSake usa )

Edinburgh Trams sees huge shift in payment method after contactless launch

(tags: money Edinburgh trams )

What it's like writing fake news

(tags: fraud writing money OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

That's if you have your pass out already. If it's at the bottom of a bag, it's time you maybe don't have.

And if there are lots of people, you have to wait at the stop while the tram is about to go, whereas if it's on board the tram, you all get on and there's no longer a rush.

And it's easy to forget if you're in a rush: that happened to us once (and T managed to hop out and validate and the next stop before we got inspected!)

Ultimately though, it's a different system from the bus where you board and deal with ticketing once you're there, which makes it confusing for people.

[andrewducker]

True. It would be nice if you tagged in when you were on the tram. Or, frankly, if you didn't need to tag in if you have a pass. I'm not sure what they gain from it other than knowledge of who gets on where and the inspectors check regularly enough for them to get that, I'd have thought.

[momentsmusicaux]

Ah. The Paris transport company did an ad campaign about that a while back, because lots of people weren't tagging their passes. It lets them gather data on usage, so they can better plan timetables and capacity and future development and so on.

[andrewducker]

Does Paris also have inspectors at the same frequency?

Because I rarely even travel one stop before an inspector checks me, and you'd think that would give them the same information.

(I don't travel during rush hour though)

[momentsmusicaux]

No, you're pretty much left to your own devices. Ticket inspectors in Paris are like on the buses in Edinburgh -- once in a blue moon, random inspection.

Several decades ago they started letting people board buses at the rear doors if you had a travel pass, and then when they started having contactless ones, they put the pads to swipe them on board. Then carried that over to the trams when those started.