Re: [NSW] Fare evasion (sort of)

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

The absolute imperative was to move passengers with a minimum of delay over
the last couple of weeks.  Barrier delays with passengers unfamiliar with
the gates was an undesirable flow inhibitor so the pragmatic and realistic
approach was to open the gates.

My gut feeling is that those new to CityRail would probably have paid any
required fares for the two weeks.  Much fare evasion arises as people who
regularly use the system determine that their chances of being caught  are
low and at $100 a pop it's cheaper than always paying the fare.  Perhaps the
nth offence in so many years should be a criminal offence with more severe
penalties etc.

Chris

Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
8r3fpc$u06$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8r3fpc$u06$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> I've been thinking about this too, especially with the side gates wide
> open at stations with ticket barriers, it'll be hard to even calculate
> how many "free trips" have been made over the past two weeks of the
> Olympics! (hmm...17 fare free days? for such a wonderful and almost-
> faultless rail service over the past two weeks as well!)
>
> I think the Olympic tickets should have had magnetic stripes, and
> passengers made to pass through them...but this will obviously put
> crowd control under extreme conditions as people bank up at the
> barriers.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
>
> In article <XZZA5.40439$A4.1272137@news1.giganews.com>,
>   "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > Wednesday night, the 0120 train from Katoomba (well, it was from Mt.
> Vic,
> > but it was out of Katoomba at 0120) was declared a failure at
> Springwood. 42
> > passengers rocked up to the Station Master (oops, Station Manager),
> who
> > asked where everyone was going. 20 to Central, 21 to places between
> > Kingswood and Redfern, 3 to Penrith and 1 to Emu Plains.
> >
> > He then asked for tickets - only four (including me) had them - so we
> caught
> > a cab to Penrith (just what I needed after sitting in a cab for 12
> hours!) -
> > the rest had to wait for the next train.
> >
> > If this is the level of fare evasion being undertaken (and none of
> them were
> > tourists and able to plead ignorance) would it have been worthwhile
> putting
> > some Revenue Protection staff out there? 4 out of 45 with tickets is a
> > pretty pathetic ratio.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
>
>
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