Videos promoting ways of getting around station barriers are helping to ‘normalise’ ticket evasion
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Videos promoting ways of getting around station barriers are helping to ‘normalise’ ticket evasion
Videos promoting ways of getting around station barriers are helping to ‘normalise’ ticket evasion
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Young men are filming themselves laughing and joking with each other as they push through the wide-aisle gates at Tube stations…

‘Criminal minority’ are pushing up ticket prices as evasion costs Transport for London £190m

Fare evasion is a nigh-on endless occurrence on London's transport network, costing Transport for London some £130million each…

It instead trains station staff to assist customers to ensure they pay the right fare and to encourage everyone to tap in and out.

GPS technology to work out when passengers enter and exit stations and calculate their fares in bid to cut fare-dodging

Transport for London spent almost £14.2m cracking down on fare dodging across the Tube network