If a mobile phone is now a prerequisite for living, governments should issue them to all citizens, and provide maintenance and replacement.
Or just don't expect people who don't own a phone to own a ticket.
Or just don't expect people who don't own a phone to own a ticket.
While the duopoly is better than the monopoly of Microsoft Windows back in the day, it's also worse as the reliance on software is much greater, and its become harder (if not impossible) to write your own implementation for $alternative_system.
The main station of the 2nd biggest city has TWO ticket machines.
The minor stations have none. You're expected to use the phone.
In Denmark, there are equivalent top-up machines at almost every rail and metro station. (The exceptions are some very rural lines, where machines are on trains instead.)
At the central station in Copenhagen there must be at least 10 machines, if not more. There are also two SJ ticket machines! Sorry Gothenburg.
The trams have a machine selling tickets on board, and that costs sensibly more than the other options. There is no way to buy tickets on a bus. On a train you must plea your case to the conductor as to why you have no ticket. For example like explaining that the pressbyrån closed at 15.00 and the closest open one implied an 8km walk.