Originally Posted by
johan rebel
I had a cab waiting for me at CPH on Monday. Police were checking IDs at the Öresundsbron toll plaza, but it took us less than a minute to get through. I got home two hours earlier than I would had I taken a nonstop train, which I guess says something about the average speed of trains in modern Sweden. With the ID checks and now also having to change trains, taking a cab saves me even more time.
Johan
Saves time for those swapping from public transit to taxis/cars, but paying more for it, more times than not.
I went through ID checks when taking the train from CPH to Sweden this week -- actually two checks per trip. I accidentally used ID that either wasn't mine or that wasn't valid, at least twice for at least one such trip; and no one but me was any the bit wiser about it until this point. I didn't realize it myself until after I went to look for some additional documentation unrelated to these ID checks and figured out that there was no way that I presented my own valid ID for at least one of these trips.
It is to be noted that some research shows that the ability to correctly do face-to-picture matches drops when the subjects are wearing outdoor winter clothes. So perhaps they really are missing inadmissible people on these trains.