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		Fargren on Sept 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with ... Aren't inspectors more expensive than gates? You don't have to pay a salary to the gates.

southerntofu on Sept 30, 2021 [–]

Well, gates need people to install/maintenance them. And they're also pretty pointless unless you have controllers, too.

Fun fact from history: here's a photo of former French president Jacques Chiraq jumping the metro https://cdn.radiofrance.fr/s3/cruiser-production/2019/09/904...

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