On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:32:37 +0100, traveller
wrote:


Interesting answer but i had used my card twice earlier during the day
so i wasn't trying to deliberately evade payment, i simply didn't know
that there were insufficient funds on the card.

To be fair I was not responding to your original question. I was
responding to what David of Broadway had written and I was sharing my
own observations and views.

The fact that the card
reader would have registered this isn't of much use as i didn't realise
that the machine had bleeped twice and obviously nor did the driver,
since he made no attempt to stop me boarding the bus. Do you think that
TFL will consider this a deliberate attempt to evade payment or not? I'm
still curious to know why the Revenue Inspector gave me the card back
and didn't issue either a notice to prosecute or a penalty fare.

You wouldn't get a notice to prosecute on the spot AIUI.

I really do not know where the burden of responsibility sits in a case
like yours - is it down to you, the equipment or the driver. My guess is
that the responsibility will be said to be yours.

My *guess* is that you will receive a notice of intent to prosecute for
evading your fare. This is based on the fact you were not given a
penalty fare but they did take your personal details. Is your card
registered? If it is then it will be perfectly possible to retrieve the
card balance and transaction history from the central system to
demonstrate the status of the card at the time you were checked on bus.

Please note that I do not know how fare evasion prosecutions are handled
these days with the advent of Oyster and PAYG so my comments above
should be treated with due caution. I think you should contact TfL
Buses Customer Services to find out what is happening.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!