[pp.int.general] Big Brother in NL?

[Gregory Engels]

On 29.11.2009, at 20:55, Edison Carter wrote:

> It should not require that at all.
>
> If the conductors carry an internet-enabled (GSM or whatever, I  
> think many trains even have wifi these days) scanner then they could  
> scan the barcode and simply check with a central system that the  
> other details (price, journey) on the ticket are as they should be,  
> and that it had only been used once. End of problem. You can print  
> thirty copies of the ticket if you like, but only the first one  
> presented to a conductor will work and the rest are worthless.

Exactly this is it how it is working with the german railway.

And, as others allready have said, you can pay with cach
in many travel agencys or a counter at the station (only
on bigger stations) ot at the ticket machine and be completly
untraceble.

Gregory.
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