(01 Jan 2025, 11:25 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Overriding isn’t the biggest issue. 

There is a lot of serious and organised fraud involving weekly tickets, stolen bank cards, etc, which was also an issue in Manchester.

It also follows calls from drivers for someone visible to return to inspecting tickets, to seemingly take the edge off the severe abuse that drivers face every day.

Is this not a sign that Stagecoach need to update their ticket machines to ones which are able to read QR codes to validate tickets that way? 

I've seen extremely few attempts to fare dodge on Arriva, First, or GNE services since their moves to Ticketer.