What's to stop me having a book of Saver tickets and, when the
Inspector asks just hand one over? Is he really going to fine me
because I entered through the rear doors because of the crush at the
front of the bus, and my inability to get to the driver (certainly
likely to be the case on a rush-hour 521) because of the crush?

I enjoyed greatly the other day, the one and only time I have seen an
Inspector on the 521 (or any bendybus) and he thought he "had" me
because it took me an age to undo my coat and extract from within my
paper 1-day travelcard: he had assumed that either I had nothing or an
Oystercard which I had obviously not touched in!

He and his colleagues (all in uniform) then spent the rest of the
journey in the 4-seat block at the back and performed no more checks
whatsoever. 4 men being paid to do nothing - and they abolished
conductors! At least they only had 1 conductor per bus, not 4 !

Marc.