Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
If I touch in at Penzance and travel to Wick but fail to touch out what is charged?
How would this be different to someone touching in at Penzance and travelling to St Erth but forgetting to touch out?
The answer to that used to be "if it happens too often block the card permanently", most people wouldn't be bothered to keep getting new cards for that.
Problem now is that the likes of Monzo let you create and destroy virtual cards at will, and you can add them to Apple Pay too. Though given that a card is associated to an individual doing that too often would likely get you found out and heading towards a conviction under the Fraud Act, and there's little that will mess up your (financial) life more than that - you won't get credit or a bank account, for certain, and probably won't get a job either - a Fraud Act conviction is basically a big yellow label saying "this person cannot be trusted".
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Clear and obvious signage at stations. Either "you must buy your ticket before you board" or "buy your ticket from the conductor"
And a well known logo too.
We could adopt the "eye" from Switzerland to indicate penalty fares trains/stations. I don't think our "triangle with tickets in it" is quite as distinctive. I'm sure we could find one for Paytrain too, then you would always have one or the other on the displays for any given train. (For older systems where a logo can't be displayed, you'd just use the text PAYTRAIN or PENALTY FARES APPLY).