On Mar 24, 1:48*pm, "tim...." wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message

...

I'm only just catching up on the series, and watched the one about revenue
inspectors yesterday. Doing some quick sums on the back of an envelope, it
seems it costs them about as much to run the revenue inspectors as the
fares they are failing to collect (£20m a year). In any event that's 1% of
their turnover, and not the complete financial disaster they portray it
as. Although I agree there's an element of "encouraging the others" so you
have to been seen to be doing *something*.

I'm not entirely convinced that you have to "be seen to be doing something"
with a barriered system that requires fare evaders to be really antisocial
to avoid paying

tim

There are many many ways to enter /leave LUL without going through
barriers

A good few met ones dont have them.
Bakerloo has too

A lot of time many are open

There is at least on central London station where lift goes from
inside gateline to outside
DLR at Bank
Stratford to NR
Bakerloo to NR

Etc etc
Then of course there is the abuse of freedom passes and young person
railcard linked oysters never mind shared season tickets

None of this abuse is prevented one Iota by barriers and can only be
detected by RPIs
HTH Phil