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   From: gsm@mendelson.com   
      
   Ron wrote:   
      
   > Most passengers seem to insert a card into a machine, no one checked   
   > tickets. I asked several folks how do I pay, they just shrugged, so it   
   > seems travel between stops wasn't worth collecting fares for. The whole   
   > system is remarkably cheap.   
      
   If it is anything like the system they just opened in Jerusalem, you can't.   
      
   With the Jerusalem system you can buy a ticket on a bus, you can buy a   
   ticket at the central bus station and you can buy a ticket at most stops   
   from a vending machine.   
      
   Once you are on the train there is no way to buy a ticket. There is a $50   
   fine if you are caught without one and some of the inspectors have been   
   fining people who had tickets that were supposed to be, but were not valid   
   due to an unadvertised change, when the ads all said there wasn't any.   
      
   If you go to one of the places they issue cards, you can get one with   
   your picture on it, which will reduce the price if you are a senior citizen,   
   student or disabled and you can buy a reduced price multi-trip ticket   
   or monthly pass which is recorded on the card.   
      
   I expect it is the same there too because the company which operates the   
   rail lines is either the same one or their competition.   
      
   Geoff.   
      
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