"Chris Read" wrote in message
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"Ed Crowley" wrote:

Some ideas:

1. Ticket barriers at every station

Not practical at very lightly used stations, but otherwise a good idea.
And
preferably 'human' barriers rather than gates - which the anti-social
elements just leap over/climb under, and have allowed rampant fraudulent
travel on child tickets. Obviously, the barriers need to be manned for as
long as the service runs and not abandoned mid-afternoon as mostly happens
at present.

Ticket barriers will pay for themselves eventually. All of the problems you
state with ticket machines could be resolved by changing the design. The
current batch of ticket barriers are not high enough to prevent people
jumping over them and the barriers themselves stay open for long enough to
allow two people through on a single ticket. The child ticket problem is
easy - only sell child tickets from the ticket office!