Hang on, aren't Daily Mail readers supporters of harsh penalties to restore law and order?! How bizarre!
Only when the recipients of the hard penalty live in a council estate or are a "banker".
Ah, my mistake!!! There are some strange people about - crime is crime, and forgery of season tickets is quite a bad one, in monetary terms.
Ah, my mistake!!! There are some strange people about - crime is crime, and forgery of season tickets is quite a bad one, in monetary terms.
Of course what it doesn't say is if these people ever paid their fines.
I got awarded £50 once after some vile individual threatened to break my legs. He got arrested by the BTP and charged with a public order offence, which he pleaded guilty to at the magistrates court. I got given the money too!
I was awarded £50 compo once for an assault where my nose was broken. I think I got about a £1 a week for a few months before he decided he could not afford to pay it anymore & I got bugger all.
One day a passenger presented a staff travel pass that had been altered. A number of the date boxes had been written in pencil then erased and overwritten a number of times. The passenger was a "dependant". The pass was withdrawn and the details of the passenger taken. In court the passenger was found guilty of a RoRA Section 5 offence, and a Byelaw 20(1) offence. They were ordered to pay fines, costs and compensation totalling £802.
Erm isn't this what all staff do? Two mates of mine certainly do
Erm isn't this what all staff do? Two mates of mine certainly do
How did "The Architect" and his cohorts manage to get through the auto barriers with these passes - the caption in the article shows a Travelcard with underground usage on top of the rail journey (can't remember what they are called)
Another good reason to extend smartcards beyond London, as that's a very easy and no doubt VERY common scam. With a Z1 Travelcard, you're able to get through every London terminus gateline and then decide on what combination of tickets to use thereafter, either another season for your local station or a fake ticket if there's no gateline and you're relying on the fact that 99% of ticket inspections won't be that close up.
No, sorry, 99% is a bit of an exaggeration. I meant 99.5%.
As someone who regularly shows Boundary Zone 6 - somewhere tickets inside the travelcard zones when checked, and let through a lot of the time, even on orange tickets they don't scrutinise the origin/destination THAT thoroughly!
Will be so much easier when an ITSO reader checks your tickets.
Another good reason to extend smartcards beyond London, as that's a very easy and no doubt VERY common scam. With a Z1 Travelcard, you're able to get through every London terminus gateline and then decide on what combination of tickets to use thereafter
Try it at Marylebone and you'll find yourself with a PAYG Entry charge, due to the next stations being in Zone 4 (Wembley Stadium) and Zone 5 (Harrow-on-the-Hill). A paper Zone 1-2 or Zone 1-3 won't open the barriers either for the same reason.
Try it at Marylebone and you'll find yourself with a PAYG Entry charge, due to the next stations being in Zone 4 (Wembley Stadium) and Zone 5 (Harrow-on-the-Hill). A paper Zone 1-2 or Zone 1-3 won't open the barriers either for the same reason.
What about people using Z12 Oyster travelcard and relevant Boundary Zone extensions?
The extension should work the gates, though I haven't tried it myself as I've got a 1-4 Travelcard on my Oyster.
Boundary Zone 2 extensions work the gates there
How confusing for passengers! I would have naturally used the Oyster at the barrier if I had a Boundary Zone 2 ticket + Oyster Zones1-2 travelcard, as this seems like the intuitive thing to do. After all, the Boundary Zone 2 ticket covers from the edge of zone 2 (oversimplifying here)
I wonder how many passengers have inadvertently been paying PAYG under these circumstances (probably not many given not many even know about the existance of BZ tickets). This setup sounds like a big problem.
And the barriers on the IC platforms at Paddington don't have Oyster readers...
Absolutely. A lot of fraud will be prevented by smartcards, until such time that someone cracks the security and can programme smartcards with anything - thus having totally legitimate data for readers.