{"id":295161,"date":"2025-07-27T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295161\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:57:09","slug":"the-barrier-to-better-transport-our-mayors-attitude-to-fare-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295161\/","title":{"rendered":"The barrier to better transport? Our mayor&#8217;s attitude to fare dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their official answer is: \u201cremoving someone from the Tube network is always a last resort\u201d. Yes, that\u2019s right, removing criminal fare dodgers from TfL property is officially always a last resort. As a recent response to a question to the Mayor from the Reform group at City Hall revealed: \u201cOfficers follow a structured approach that prioritises de-escalation, using TfL\u2019s five-step appeal process (simple, reasoned, personal, final, action) and the four-step engagement model (engage, educate, encourage, enforce) before taking enforcement action.\u201d I don\u2019t know whether the pen pushers who designed this policy have travelled by Tube recently, but the opportunity to \u201cengage, educate and encourage\u201d fare dodgers is limited at best. They generally display a lightness of foot matched only by Speedy Gonzales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Their official answer is: \u201cremoving someone from the Tube network is always a last resort\u201d. Yes, that\u2019s right,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,109547,4884,257,16131,14252,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-295161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-fares","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-mayor","14":"tag-sadiq-khan","15":"tag-transport","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114923663737381868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}