Those with an ounce of shame shove through the barriers behind you. The brazen simply jump over them. While at many stations without them simply walk on and off the train with so much as a tap. Fare dodging is rife in the capital, and it is far from a victimless crime.
Fare dodging costs Transport for London up to £150 million a year, while the cost to the rail industry as a whole is estimated to be £330 million. These are funds that would otherwise be ploughed back into the network. It also inevitably means a greater burden for funding services falls on the law-abiding – that is, the great majority of Londoners.
