Originally Posted by
joshwex90
You pay the money, the provider receives the money when you travel. Public transportation in Israel is significantly subsidized by the Ministry of Transportation
Right, but for example, if i travel on a 'afikim' bus line from TLV to Jslem, and pay the driver to put 50 shekel onto the rav kav, then the next day i use the rav kav for a Jslem city bus, how will egged get that 50 shekel from Afikim?
In most cases, the apps will end up being cheaper than Rav-Kav (conceptually it is distance-based pricing). A big benefit of the apps is that they charge you retroactively based on the lowest price (meaning if you traveled enough to have made it worthwhile to buy a monthly pass, then at the end of the month it will only charge you the monthly price, not each individual price; if you didn't, it will charge the individual trips - so you no longer need to guess if you'll need a daily/weekly/monthly pass)
That would be good, as in London.