(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.

It sounds like they need more than a ticket inspector then, but more a whole gang of them? Similar to the Metro or Metrolink approach, where they randomly swarm on an unsuspecting train, and with that many of them, people don't have time to think or try and make an escape. 

I can completely understand why drivers want someone visible doing it, but I think having solo ticket inspectors is just shifting the problem; and to someone with even less protection than a driver.

I do maintain that some of this is a policing issue though, especially the fraud elements. Too often nowadays we expect frontline workers to plug the gaps of Police.