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Actually, the bolded part pretty much sounds exactly like a public transit system you'll find in most cities, at least in the US.
Not in my experience. First, US public transit is not good at all compared to many other places in the world. The US is a car culture and public transit has a stigma. Not so in much of the world.Second, those differences are even more pronounced in San Diego. I lived in San Francisco for years and have used public transit extensively in New York. While I know some people in Manhattan who would never step foot in the subway, I find it to be fine. Similarly in San Francisco, it's an accepted way to get around by a wide demographic of the population. From students to millionaires, it's just much less hassle than driving in the Bay Area. In San Diego, well........ most people who can afford to drive will drive. There's also the factor that the trolley is by the honor system. You don't need to have a ticket to ride it. There's no gate or a ticket check to get on. So it's easy to ride without a ticket. Which just exacerbates the situation. There is some ticket enforcement which they step up during Comic Con, but normally it just doesn't happen very much. Even when it does, people see the cops come on at a stop and they just hop off and wait for the next train.In San Diego, particularly on the orange line, I have seen fights, people playing music loudly is the rule not the exception, and there are frequent homeless. I rode public transit in San Francisco 100 times more than I do in San Diego, I never saw a single fight and people playing music was uncommon. I'm not saying everyone is like that, 90+% of the people are well behaved and just trying to make it home. But it only takes a single person cranking his music or 2 guys duking it out to make a ride miserable.
From 2008-2009, fare enforcements on SF transit were VERY infrequent. I only saw them in the underground stations on the Metro. I never saw them above ground, or on a bus. In 2010 I did start to see more of them and they appeared on the buses too. But soon after that I stopped relying on public transit, so I'm not sure if they continued or if it was just a wave.
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LOLBack on topic......with the list of exhibitors and the map coming out today.....for it at least this begins the, "I really need to watch how much time I spend obsessing over SDCC while at work!" which basically means, it's gonna start coming so fast an furious from now and have so much information to pore over from this day forward, most of us are going to be playing the "quick minimize screen!" game every day for the next month!
In SF, the driver on each bus/tram should be enforcing it by only allowing people in the front by him and not out the exits further back. Of course how well that works is purely up to each driver. Some drivers are sticklers and will get up and kick people out that hopped on through the back door. Other drivers just don't care even if you go through the front door without buying a ticket or having a transfer. It also matters where this is happening. It's easier when there are just a handful of people hopping on. In Chinatown where it's a mass of people thorough every door every time, they don't even try. If I'm at a window seat going through Chinatown headed to Union Square, I don't even try to get off until we hit the Bart station. It's just not worth the effort.
In San Diego, it's officially the honor system on the trolley. Except for the rare transit police spot check, there is no mechanism to enforce tickets.
I took it to SDCC every day up until a couple years ago when I started doing Convention Center parking b/c I realized I could be packing a cooler with drinks and lunch in my car.
Year number 9. 60 years old. Dean of a university. Rational. Mature. All I can respond to being in the home stretch is, "Yay! Yay! Yay!" You'd swear I was a newb; I'm so excited to see folks again.
^^ this. I'm looking forward to the meetups & line hangouts more then anything else !