"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:50:17 +0100, "tim......"
wrote:
(as well as the in station options) German
(/Italian/Belgium/Dutch/Spanish)
systems normally work on the basis of there being a prepaid
"carnet" or
strip ticket (or smart card), which you buy from manned newsagents
(etc), so
the comparison is entirely false, IMHO.

You mean like, say, Oyster?

no Oyster requires you to own a one time purchase card which has limited
supply outlets

German transit systems let you buy a paper ticket for immediate travel, from
thirs party agents


Hamburg doesn't and never has had, btw. It has a fare structure very
similar to London.

Are you sure

Long time since I was there but I'm sure that they had strip cards

tim


Neil

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