They also give you a written ticket. If you don't have ID, there's basically no way to write you a ticket.

If the officer didn't ask for ID, you're off the hook for sure.

Don't worry about activation, they always warn on it (but let you go), it's just important you have the ticket. Checking is rare but most common at Hoboken.

I don't personally like the activation system. It takes longer than some trips, and is a relic of paper tickets. For the app it doesn't make sense.

I don't get the activation thing still. What if you just hop on and click activate? It's not valid for 3 minutes so you're suppose to stand there and wait without getting on? LR passes every 30 minutes on weekends lol.

From my experience, they usually give a ticket on the spot. If you didn’t get one, you’ll be fine. If they only have a warning then you have nothing to worry about

"be careful next time" means "you are not being fined THIS time because we feel your status as newly arrived here might have contributed to confusion over the ridiculous light rail honor system"

In Amsterdam they just put those punch machines ON the tram so you can still punch your ticket accurately if you happen to forget and they were checking... also I liked that they had a long strip you punched so you didn't have to keep buying individual tickets.