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04:39:21 on Sat, 10 May 2008, Boltar remarked:

premium priced Tourist Travelcard. I can't think of a city anywhere that
makes it easy for people with loads of fresh, high denomination currency
to use standard public transport services. Many systems are farebox no

Paris - queue at the ticket office at the gare du nord , buy a Mobilis
(or whatever they're calling it this year). Sorted.

Kiev - queue at ticket office , buy tokens.

New York - ditto above , or you can get the equivalent of a
travelcard, can't remember its name.

Brussels - ticket machines accept notes and give change.

Depends where you are. Before they replaced the old machines when the
Euro came in, it was coins or nothing. Amsterdam is getting better, but
their machines don't take notes, many don't take credit cards (even
though they claim to) and the local smart-card money dominates.

etc etc

Yep, different at every place.

to find the public transport at Singapore Airport, try to find a NYC
transit bus to take you into town at JFK in NYC.

Or do what everyone else does and get the airtrain or local bus to
howard beach subway station.

Local knowledge, again.
--
Roland Perry