Can’t jail all these people so need to find proper punishments
A criminal record feels harsh but maybe a ban from using the public transport would be an interesting detergent.
Challenging to enforce but it wouldn’t take many people being refused entry to a train for it to have some effect.
Hopefully justice can catch up with the prolific phone snatchers next…
I see so much of this that it’s now not uncommon to see BTP or TfL staff waiting at the barriers of my local station. And it’s not just kids doing it.
It is a problem that needs cracking down on, the challenge is how you enforce any bans, etc. There’d presumably be that many offenders that TfL staff couldn’t be expected to recognise them all…
> In one recent case, an individual used a contactless payment card to evade paying the correct fare across 202 journeys.
>After investigation, the individual was ordered to pay £1,472 in fines, one of the thousands who are caught and prosecuted each year, resulting in financial penalties and criminal convictions.
Sounds like going after people who don’t tap between changing trains, rather than people pushing through barriers
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Bullshit
Can’t jail all these people so need to find proper punishments
A criminal record feels harsh but maybe a ban from using the public transport would be an interesting detergent.
Challenging to enforce but it wouldn’t take many people being refused entry to a train for it to have some effect.
Hopefully justice can catch up with the prolific phone snatchers next…
I see so much of this that it’s now not uncommon to see BTP or TfL staff waiting at the barriers of my local station. And it’s not just kids doing it.
It is a problem that needs cracking down on, the challenge is how you enforce any bans, etc. There’d presumably be that many offenders that TfL staff couldn’t be expected to recognise them all…
> In one recent case, an individual used a contactless payment card to evade paying the correct fare across 202 journeys.
>After investigation, the individual was ordered to pay £1,472 in fines, one of the thousands who are caught and prosecuted each year, resulting in financial penalties and criminal convictions.
Sounds like going after people who don’t tap between changing trains, rather than people pushing through barriers
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