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Old February 19th 06, 12:42 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default How much revenue is lost through passengers with no tickets on bendibuses

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:35:39 -0000, "Paul"
wrote:

If you travel 19 times out of 20 without paying, and get caught on the 20th
occasion and end up paying a penalty fare, you will still be 'in pocket'.

Multiply this by the number of journeys being made on bendibuses, and I'm
sure it adds up to a lot of money.

Any comments?


Something I was wondering the other day:

What's to stop you getting on a bendy with a pre-pay Oyster, and
standing next to the Oyster reader, only touching in if/when an
inspector boards? Do they switch the validators off when there is an
inspection?