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jancho
Senior Member
Czech
- May 1, 2009
- #1
Hello.
I would like to know, how would you call "ticket controller in public transport". It is a noun meaning a person who checks tickets of people in busses, subway etc.
example:
If you don't have the ticket and a ticket controller catch you, you have to pay 700 Czech Crouns.
(I am not looking for translation of this example, I am looking for translation of the term itself)
suggestion: auditor, inspector, examiner, controller, comptroller, accountant
What I am looking for mainly are differences between British and American English. How is that person called in America and how in Britain?
Thank you.
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sweetpotatoboy
Senior Member
English, UK (London)
- May 1, 2009
- #2
ticket inspector (in BE)
panjandrum
Senior Member
Belfast, Ireland
English-Ireland (top end)
- May 1, 2009
- #3
sweetpotatoboy said:
ticket inspector (in BE)
You may also come across "Bus Inspector".
cuchuflete
Senior Member
Maine, EEUU
EEUU-inglés
- May 1, 2009
- #4
AE is mystified by Kc and "translaction", but your request is otherwise understandable.
Most public transit systems in the U.S. used to require purchase of a ticket or token prior to boarding a vehicle, so there was no need for the function you describe. For public buses, coins were deposited into a counting machine as one entered the vehicle. For commuter and long distance train travel, one could either buy a ticket in advance, or from a conductor on the train. Some current systems may have functions similar to to those describer by the BE speakers. You will have to wait for an urban member to reply.
GreenWhiteBlue
Banned
The City of New York
USA - English
- May 1, 2009
- #5
On railroads in the United States (including intercity trains, or suburban trains within a metropolitan area) the person who collects tickets is the conductor -- and if you don't have one, he or she will usually just sell you one then, although at a higher price than it would have cost you to buy one in the station. In most cities, before you are able to board a bus or a rapid transit train, you must pay your fare at the entry (either when passing the bus driver, or when going through a turnstile to enter a rapid-transit system), and so tickets are not used or inspected after boarding. Thus, in most places in the US the position you describe does not exist, and so there is no name for it. The only place in the US I can think of that has the system you describe is the the rapid transit system in Los Angeles, whre you buy a ticket from a vending machine before you enter and then must keep it on you as proof of payment. These tickets are subject to inspection by "fare inspectors" from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
Basil Ganglia
Senior Member
Bellevue, WA
English - USA
- May 1, 2009
- #6
GreenWhiteBlue said:
The only place in the US I can think of that has the system you describe is the the rapid transit system in Los Angeles, whre you buy a ticket from a vending machine before you enter and then must keep it on you as proof of payment. These tickets are subject to inspection by "fare inspectors" from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
The MAX in Portland, Oregon operates similarly. I believe they also refer to an individual who asks to see proof of payment as an Inspector.
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