Queensland, Australia introduced state-wide $0.50 public transit fares a year ago, and it’s been a raging success. Conveniently, this also eliminates the entire problem class of needing to calculate fares. Mind you, for those unfamiliar, QLD is a state 2.5x larger than Texas, 5x larger than all of Japan, 7x larger than Great Britain, and is bigger than all but 16 countries.

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kingkongjaffa 4 days ago | parent [-]

I guess size is a factor but also population density, does QLD have way less people per sq.m and does that make it easier to implement stuff like this?

	▲	theothertimcook 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		QLD population density is something like 2000x lower than that of Tokyo… Our public transport systems are so bad. The Brisbane airport rail connection runs about half as many train services as the Perth airport, which seems about half the amount of travellers each year as Brisbane airport. It’s crazy, double the fare burden, half the patronage, and stuck in a monopoly contract until 2036. Don’t even get me started on the stupid busways, gimped light rails, the new “metro” and the endless amount poured into the motorways that they have been widening one lane at a time for 3 decades…