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Fare dodging cost TfL £75m last year, with most of the loss on buses.
The same unsentimentality applies to fare dodging, now that private railway companies have created punitive and baffling pricing systems.
The next category of minor offences to be transferred to online justice are those relating to transport fare dodging.
Amid the timetables and rail replacement service notices at London's Euston station you will find a list of passengers, complete with addresses and ages, who have been found guilty in a magistrates court of fare dodging.
Some 450 revenue inspectors are employed across the network to try to stop fare dodging.
"This guy can buy silence, but that isn't offered to most people who are caught fare dodging". On Twitter, blogger Martin Shovel wrote: "Biggest rail fare dodger in history avoids prosecution because he's rich enough to pay back what he owed #OneLaw" And Hugh Knowles tweeted: "Biggest rail fare dodger in UK?
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British-born, of Nigerian parentage, Osho bases much of her act on the idiosyncrasies of the UK's Nigerian community, opening with a sketch about the "free bus" (buses where passengers can jump on in the middle and fare dodge).
Far longer than other buses, bendies were unpopular with cyclists and motorists and susceptible to fare-dodging.
But installing biometric eye-scanners at every turnstile on a city's public-transport system would be overkill, because fare-dodging can be mitigated with far cheaper technology.
An even more vexed digilante moment is this week's Scotrail epic, in which Alan Pollock manhandled Sam Main off the train for alleged fare-dodging.
They balked at his concern over a looming deadline to pay a fine he owed for fare-dodging on Berlin's transport network days before.
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