Reply to: Time to stop fare dodging

[original PM]

This winds me up too sometimes. Fair enough catch the fair dodgers BUT

Where I get on half the time one of the ticket machine is broken which sometimes means a huge queue for the one working one. I aint missing my train because of this so I just jump on.

So far I've had no problems buying on the train but I know people who have had issues.

Then again, rugby day in cardiff everyone buys a single in kmowing full well when its packed to the roof coming home there no chance in a million years the guard will be around.

Thing is the difference is normally like 30 p

[GlenW]

Racist!

[SueEllen]

Typical thieving Welsh twunts.

Racist!

[GlenW]

Then again, rugby day in cardiff everyone buys a single in kmowing full well when its packed to the roof coming home there no chance in a million years the guard will be around.

Typical thieving Welsh twunts.

[psychocandy]

Sometimes it would be nice to be able to buy a ruddy ticket. :-(

Get on at my station with no ticket machine, no permit to travel etc, Conductor can't normally sell a ticket. It's 2 minutes to bath.

Then the guy comes round on the train to paddington (sometimes) and tries to chare a full fare ratherthan the most appropriateone on the ground it's in a penalty zone.

Can't buy the ticket in Bath without missing the London connection.

Right pain in the butt.

This winds me up too sometimes. Fair enough catch the fair dodgers BUT

Where I get on half the time one of the ticket machine is broken which sometimes means a huge queue for the one working one. I aint missing my train because of this so I just jump on.

So far I've had no problems buying on the train but I know people who have had issues.

Then again, rugby day in cardiff everyone buys a single in kmowing full well when its packed to the roof coming home there no chance in a million years the guard will be around.

[centurian]

As two fare dodgers have recently been caught, would it be reasonable to conjecture that the rail companies have started using some kind of new face recognition technology to determine who gets on the train where?

Probably simpler than that - like flagging up when Oyster cards rack up penalty charges day-in, day-out. Shouldn't take long to work out a pattern.

[ASB]

Sometimes it would be nice to be able to buy a ruddy ticket. :-(

Get on at my station with no ticket machine, no permit to travel etc, Conductor can't normally sell a ticket. It's 2 minutes to bath.

Then the guy comes round on the train to paddington (sometimes) and tries to chare a full fare ratherthan the most appropriateone on the ground it's in a penalty zone.

Can't buy the ticket in Bath without missing the London connection.

Right pain in the butt.

[SueEllen]

Although this fella - surely when he got the first warning he would have shat himself and given it up? Nuts that is mind.

There are obviously loads of people doing it.

Also most of them either get cautioned or go to magistrates court and get a small fine. I do know someone who did end up in court due to fare dodging. He got a £30 fine and no criminal record.* That was in the days before oyster cards/bank cards tracked your journey and they could look on their computer systems to see when you last brought a season ticket....

*We worked out he lost more money in having to take a day off to attend court than paying the couple of fares he evaded.

[psychocandy]

Seems easy to do this sort of thing mind which I guess is the attraction for people. £20K no matter what you earn is a fair whack if you think its easy mind.

Although this fella - surely when he got the first warning he would have shat himself and given it up? Nuts that is mind.

[SueEllen]

It only goes to show the total lack of ticket inspectors between the major commuter towns outside M25 and inner London stations.

You are expected to be honest.

If you travel on the trains and metro in other European countries they also don't have loads of ticket inspectors.

Also the ticket inspectors cannot get on commuter trains in SE and London as they can't physically get on the trains. So the only way to catch people is on their way out and by doing sting operations.

[sal]

It only goes to show the total lack of ticket inspectors between the major commuter towns outside M25 and inner London stations.

[shaunbhoy]

He should have stayed in Earl's Court working in a pub...

He probably only did it because he fancies being shipped to Botany Bay for free!!

[barrydidit]

Maglevs do.

[Ticktock]

This.

Trains don't run on thin air.

Maglevs do.

[SueEllen]

Or, some people are just tight.

This.

Trains don't run on thin air.