LIVORNO. From two months to just 24 hours. Tomorrow who will buy a ticket to a regional train you will be facing an important innovation: the time of purchase of the ticket must indicate the date of travel. And just that day will come on board. From August 1 Trenitalia will make another step towards the digital. It is the last act of war against the “smart guys” who climb on board without validating the ticket, each time trying to get away. Operation that many also manages the frequent difficulty of personnel to affettuare capillary controls, and causing a financial loss of some importance to the coffers of the company.
Now this trick is no longer possible, because the ticket – even if it is not stamped – after midnight is no longer valid.
A choice – that carried out by Trenitalia – motivated by the fight against the squatters, but will create a litany of hardships for those used to stock up on tickets, knowing that they could be used in the two months following the date of purchase. Well, the advice is for those who still want to do: know that today is the last day.
What changes . The difference that exists between the new and the old regional ticket is more or less the same that distinguishes a bottle of fresh milk on the other (more permanent) UHT. The ticket sale from tomorrow must be consumed quickly. The rest is not good, but the same as before. “It may be used within the 23,59 of the day when you choose to travel,” says the handbook Trenitalia. From the railway undertaking’s strategy is clear: to make traceable the sale of each ticket. It’s the same reason that brought railways to cancel mileage ticket, so convenient to those who arrived at the station at the last moment and, instead of having to queue at the ticket office, you race fell on newsstands.
The stated goal? Nip the growing problem of squatters on board. But it is obvious that the choice to make less flexible ticket will bring more revenue to the company. Those due to personal problems will find itself no longer able to use (or change) the ticket purchased, will inevitably buy it again the next time, losing money in the past instead of what could still be used.
NEW TRICKS . Warning: if the ticket will bring the date of travel, does not mean it should not be stamped. Validation is always mandatory and begins the validity of the coupon, which is four hours. Reported on the same regional ticket purchased on the Trenitalia site, valid when the election race on which to board. Who, for example, tomorrow will buy a ticket for August 4, may not use either the 5 or the 3, but only 4. But it can change it (once) until the day before departure, free of charge only in official ticket otherwise it costs at least 50 cents for example in enabled tobacconists. As with Intercity and Arrows if the rates are not discounted, impossible circumstance for our local trains, the price of which is fixed in time.
A REFUND PROHIBITIVE . Who does not know when to leave you can always obtain reimbursement of the ticket. Too bad that Trenitalia always retain 20% as a penalty, and if the result of the subtraction (the purchase price minus 20%) is less than 8 Euros and a penny, a refund is not due. This – which is actually not new – it becomes so when the regional ticket loses its traditional flexibility. And that is what will happen from tomorrow. Here’s many trips as the Livorno – Pisa – Empoli – Florence or Lucca – Pistoia can never be repaid.
DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. A good news, however, for commuters there. From tomorrow on August 1 will be able to show
to guard your subscription in digital format, without having to force printing.
Until now it was only possible for regional ticket (if bought online course). No risk, so if from now on you forget the card at home.
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