Every time I go to Tokyo I envy their metro system. The Tokyo Metro is extremely punctual and has regular trains arriving less than five minutes apart most of the day and night. It is also extremely clean (no one urinates there) and well maintained by an army of silent, always standing and moving agents in uniform wearing perfectly white gloves.
In Tokyo, unlike Paris there is not a zone for tickets, you pay as you go, there are also no monthly cards, you pay as you go.
Fraud in the metro ? Abundant in Paris, simply can not happen in Tokyo. Is is because of (expensive) complicated doors that make it difficult to pass without paying (like in Paris} ? No.
Every single entry has at least one agent ensuing no one passes without paying.
See for yourself:
Now the trains, they are always on time, to the second. And clean in and out.
See how shiny those windows are, it's like fresh out the car wash.
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No fraud ? I should introduce you to some of my former university buddies ;)
In both Vienna and Munich there are neither doors nor guards. There is nothing stopping you to travel without a ticket. Furthermore, from a strictly economic point of view it makes no sense to buy a monthly pass: the fine is less than half of the price of pass and the chances of getting controlled twice in a month are very slim. And yet it seems to me that at any time there are less than 5% of travelers without a ticket. It's something I have noeexplanation for.
There's certainly fraud here too, still I believe it is far less than in the Paris Metro.
You would probably miss the fresh smell of piss in Paris metro every morning :D