Brother. Every metro around the world I’ve been on makes you validate a ticket to get through the turnstyle to get to the train, and makes you validate it to get out at your destination.
Not rocket science.
Light rail systems generally don’t have turnstyles.
Too expensive to implement such a system for light rail, it’s the same here in DFW with DART, they check so infrequently you can always tell which riders aren’t paying.
In my case I have an app that displays my pass on my cell phone.
Don't travel much, do you?
Recent trips without turnstiles:
San Diego
Phoenix
Dallas
Koeln Strassenbahn
Koeln S-Bahn
Recent trips that had turnstiles:
Washington
Lite rail seems to be a farce everywhere.
The Sprinter light rail in North San Diego County is on the ‘honor’ system. Just to see what all the fuss was about from our liberal friends, Mr. RightField and I took a round trip between Oceanside and Escondido. On the outbound leg of the ride, only one fare checker was on board, and when she found two teenagers without a ticket, she took them off the train for nonpayment and said she was going to stay with them until the police arrived. For the rest of the trip (and all of the return trip) no fare checker at all.