Chapter 339: There are fare evaders everywhere
Yang Meng walked triumphantly on the way to the subway station.
There is a reason why he is so proud: he has been noticed by many people along the way, and many people have taken photos with Yang Meng, including many young girls. Yang Meng wore this dress and walked on the streets of Paris, and actually enjoyed the courtesy of a star.
Yang Meng couldn't see his eyes while wearing glasses, but the upturned corners of his mouth had betrayed his smug mood at this time.
However, Di Wei and Pan Peiyu, who were following them, felt embarrassed.
Luckily they had already arrived at the subway station.
Well, the Paris metro is really well developed, with a metro station almost every few hundred meters. The ticket vending machine is right outside the metro station, so after buying it, go down the stairs to enter the subway.
The ticket vending machines here are really much worse than the domestic ones, more like old-fashioned small-screen ATMs, but they are quite advanced, touch screen mode, first select the language, then choose the route, and finally pay for the ticket.
Yang Meng was still there to observe the ticket vending machine, and a young man next to him came over to help them operate the ticket machine and help them buy tickets, and Pan Peiyu directly communicated with him in French and asked him to leave.
"What's going on?" Yang Meng asked puzzledly: "Why did you let Lei Feng go when people learned from Lei Feng to do good deeds?"
Pan Peiyu explained: "They buy tickets for you and then ask you for tips. I didn't want to give less, I came to Paris to play but suffered a loss, this time there were many of us, so he didn't dare to do anything. Otherwise, pestering you to tip is annoying. β
Yang Meng spread his hands, and several people bought tickets to enter the subway station.
As soon as they came down the stairs, they saw someone arguing there.
In fact, it is not uncommon to see people arguing in Paris, but why does this man look twice?
Because the party arguing was wearing a set of sportswear! Coming out of the hotel and meeting so many people, this was the first time Yang Meng had seen someone wearing sportswear! And this man's appearance was more like Tianzhu or Batie.
Yang Meng looked at Pan Peiyu with a wicked smile: "I said Lao Pan, didn't you say that there is very little racial discrimination here?
Pan Peiyu said: "Master, you have misunderstood! This is a fare evasion!"
"Catch fare evasion?" Yang Meng was confused.
Pan Peiyu took out the subway ticket he bought and gave it to Yang Meng and said: "Master, you also saw it just now, the subway system here in Paris is very old, and there are often machine failures, and sometimes the printed tickets are not easy to use, and you know this in Paris." Sometimes you swipe the ticket, but you can't find it on the side of the ticket. Then you need to check the ticket with various explanations, which is time-consuming and troublesome. I suspect that the Paris government deliberately failed to rectify the situation, just to make money for those who checked the votes. It is not like there is surveillance everywhere in China, and it is necessary to rely on people to catch the package tickets. It is not surprising that there is an altercation. β
In the domestic subway, there are people who evade fares, for example, one person swipes the ticket and two people drill in, such as practicing 'light skills' and trippingγγγγγγ It's like a city known for its 'civilization', with more than 120,000 ticket evaders every year! There are only a few more cities like the northern capital.
But they ignore one problem, which is a lot of surveillance in the country.
How do you say that? 'Evil will be rewarded with evil, and good will be rewarded, and it is not that the time has not yet come for not reporting', the monitoring is there, and you can catch whatever you want, not to mention the 10 times the fine, and the fare evasion will be included in the personal credit system in some places, and sometimes it will even be handed over to the judicial organs to deal with! So the situation of fare evasion in China is much better now.
"Alive, see the series. Yang Meng and a few people went down the stairs, walked through the passage, swiped their tickets at the gate and entered the subway.
Di Wei said: "It is said that foreigners are of high quality, how can there still be people who evade fares? I have never seen anyone evade fares when I was in Dongying!"
Pan Peiyu stopped when he heard this: "I don't know, but you said that Parisians don't evade tickets? β
"Bet on what?" Di Wei asked puzzled.
Pan Peiyu pointed to the gate and said: "We are waiting for fifteen people here, if at least one of the ten people evades the ticket, you give me fifty euros, if there is no one who evades the ticket, I will give you fifty euros." β
Before Di Wei could speak, Yang Meng said, "What are you afraid of? Bet with him! I also want to know this!"
"Okay! bet!" Di Wei nodded.
The two high-fived each other.
As a result, just after speaking, an old lady came over.
If you want to say what is the biggest highlight of Paris? Yang Meng will say: In addition to the buildings, it is the old lady!
The top of the old lady in Paris is 'old goblin', of course, 'old goblin' here is a compliment. Although many old ladies are old and have gray hair, no matter how makeup or dress, they are as delicate as they are!
Many old ladies are dressed as young, except for the wrinkles on their faces and the gray hair on their heads, they are no different from young people, and you can think of how good they looked when they were young when they looked at their makeup.
And the old lady in front of her is like this, her body shape is called a praise! Dressed like a celebrity, wearing a small red dress, her hair is coiled up like Audrey Hepburn, and she is wearing a beautiful pearl necklace.
"Such a person will never evade a ticket, right?" Di Wei muttered.
As soon as she finished muttering, she saw the old lady walk to the side of the gate and drill out along the gate.
Pan Peiyu stretched out his hand directly and said, "Take out the money!"
Di Wei couldn't close his mouth for a long time: "Damn, this is okay?"
"Don't talk nonsense! Shell money!" Pan Peiyu said.
Di Wei looked at Yang Meng with an aggrieved expression: "Master, you made me gamble, should you give me this money?"
Yang Meng shook his head: "I just said that I supported you to gamble with him, but I didn't say that I wanted to pay for you!"
Di Wei sighed, took out fifty euros from his pocket and handed it to Pan Peiyu, still muttering: "How many extra shifts do I have to work to transfer fifty euros." Gambling kills people!"
He didn't give up on giving the money, so he stood there and continued to look at the ticket evaders, and after looking at it for a long time, he found that the phenomenon of fare evasion in Paris was more common than in China, and no matter the old people, young people, men, or women, there was probably a probability of fare evasion of one tenth or even higher! No wonder Pan Peiyu would tell him that there would definitely be people who evaded fares among the fifteen peopleγγγγγγγ
Pan Peiyu said: "In fact, the public facilities in Paris are quite developed, there are more than 300 subway stations in Paris, and you can definitely find a subway station anywhere within 500 meters, and the 14 main lines and two branch lines can be said to extend in all directions." And if you are on hardship allowance, you can ride the subway for free. It sounds great, but in fact not everyone is eligible for hardship benefits, and the subway is not cheap. You're like ours, and this one of ten is a dozen euros. Of course, ordinary people can save money, anyway, there is no ticket inspection when leaving the Paris Metro. Of course, there are many ticket evaders. β
Paris metro tickets and bus tickets are universal, you can buy a single seat of the 'single ticket', you can also buy a domestic bus of the same 'promissory ticket', that is, buy more discounts, there is also a 'day pass', that is, a day to sit at will and there are weekly, monthly, and annual passes, anyway, the longer the more discounted.
There are often problems with the use of such paper tickets, and it is also inconvenient, so Paris also keeps pace with the times and begins to engage in mobile phone payment, well, but after doing it, it is not so simple: not to mention updating the subway equipment, but also to have NFC technology on the mobile phone. So it hasn't been put into use yet.
As Pan Peiyu said, the subway fare is actually not cheap, and the supervision is loose, so there are naturally more fare evasions.
And when she arrived at the subway in Paris, Yang Meng wanted to evade the ticket: when she came in, she smelled a strong smell of urine! This is really not an exaggeration! As long as you are not a person with a sense of smell failure, you will smell this smell when you arrive here!
In addition, I am used to the new subway in China, and I really feel that the subway equipment here is old.
Of course, this is not to blame, after all, the Paris metro has been in operation for more than 100 years!
And the metro in Paris also has an advantage, that is, safety!
For more than 100 years, the Paris metro has only had three fires, four crashes and three derailments during its operation, and most of them happened half a century ago when technology was immature.
When Yang Meng heard from Pan Peiyu's mouth that the Paris subway was so safe, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up, after all, there are the most dense subway lines in the world's cities under Paris, and it is not easy to maintain such a high level of safety.
"Huh?" After getting on the subway, Yang Meng was stunned: "It turns out that what was said on the Internet is true?"
"What is really?" asked Pan Peiyu, puzzled.
Yang Meng pointed to the people in the subway and said: "Here in the subway, they are really reading books and newspapers, not looking at their mobile phones!"
Pan Peiyu was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then laughed out loud: "Master, it's really not that foreigners don't play with their mobile phones! Do you take out your mobile phone to see if there is a signal? This is basically equivalent to losing contact with the outside world when you enter the subway station! What can you read if you don't read a book? You go to the subway in Toulouse to have a look, where the subway signal is fully covered, and all the people on the subway are looking at mobile phones, so how can there be anyone who reads books? Paris said a few years ago that it would also install a network for the subway, but there is no follow-up to this day. Their efficiency γγγγγγ But to be honest, I don't think the last thing I need in the Paris metro right now is the internet. β
"What's that?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.
"Don't you think it's hot?" Di Wei said.
Yang Meng shrugged, he really didn't feel itγγγγγγ
"There is no air conditioning in the subway?" Yang Meng looked left and right.
"Master, you're so sluggish!No wonder you're not hot!" Di Wei said.
Pan Peiyu said: "The subway in Paris developed too early, and many things have already formed a complete system. So a lot of things can't keep up, such as air conditioning, and many Paris metro lines don't have air conditioning. The hottest place in Paris is the metro car. The summer before last, Metro Line 1 broke down, and more than 3,000 passengers were trapped in the carriage for two hours, and finally fainted from the heat. β
"Then install an air conditioner!"
"I'm sorry, the transportation company said that the subway air conditioning is not environmentally friendly. β
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