christine wrote in
:


were you near enough to the driver to see if the passengers showed
their photocard with their pass? Or just presuming because the driver
didn't ask they didn't show one

Yes, it was simply swiped through the plastic of the closed orange wallet.

Yesterday, the youth in question was in the queue in front of me, which is
how I saw it said "F'DOM PASS" or some such thing on the display.