On 24 Oct, 09:43, "Jim Hawkins" wrote:
Nick wrote:
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:12:29 +0100, "Jim Hawkins"
wrote this:

How would you stop the trains becoming doss houses ?
How would you stop gangs of yobs from boarding for
a variety of illegal/antisocial purposes?

How would you stop them now?

Nick

It doesn't happen, largely because dossers can't afford tickets
and most yobs don't want to buy them.
But please tell me, *how are they going to be stopped in a
ticket-free situation ?
I'm not rubbishing the idea of free train travel, but the obvious
potential problems need to be addressed.

Jim Hawkins

I think he was asking for evidence that a theoretical requirement to
pay for a ticket currently keeps such people out of unstaffed, open-
barriered stations.

The issue is staffing, not fares.