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Public Transport - Don't Make Me Think! (shkspr.mobi)
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yes, the author misunderstood something, you definitely don’t need an app. I regularly buy tickets, and I’ve never even installed the bloody app. The two-ticket system is annoying, though, and it’s the kind of mistake a tourist could easily make in good faith. (Taking the tram with a metro ticket, for example.)

Trains and metro travel require separate tickets at different prices. You can't easily hop from one to another.

... Ah wait, I thought they were talking about the metro or bus+tram tickets, but they seem to be talking about the RER tickets instead ? That’s another issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    while i was in paris the RER tickets had been folded into the metro tickets but i think that’s more recent. i was there in april

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh you’re right, I forgot that they changed the system for the RER. You used to be able to access the RER with a “normal” metro ticket as long as you stayed inside Paris, but for the suburbs you had to buy a ”destination” ticket which costed more or less depending on the length of your trip. I wasn’t certain whether that system had completely disappeared.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    to be fair, i did stay within central paris. I'd heard the system had been updated as I described and I didn't see anywhere to buy RER tickets but you're right to call me out, i did post this without double checking :)

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