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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2013 7:29:33 GMT
RPI's cost money and if drivers do their job properly there is little scope for fare evasion. The few that are about seem to go for easy targets where the chances are everybody will have paid and they'll get no aggro. Your comment appears to be spoken from the point of view of somebody with blinkered vision. What if somebody is using a counterfeit / copied pass? Or somebody is using a Freedom Pass / Zip pass / staff pass or similar and touches it on the bus for travel. The driver would not identify an irregularity of this type. What about staff fraud for example? How would you detect this without the presence of Revenue Protection Inspectors? Then there is the deterrent factor. If passengers know their is a possibility of a ticket check then clearly this will act as a deterrent in some cases. There are numerous other types of issues and irregularities that I could talk about but for obvious reasons I'm not going to disclose these o n a public forum. But not too blinkered to realise that employing large numbers of RPI's to catch a small number of fare dodgers is simply not cost effective |
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Post by snoggle on Sept 8, 2013 15:31:48 GMT
Your comment appears to be spoken from the point of view of somebody with blinkered vision. What if somebody is using a counterfeit / copied pass? Or somebody is using a Freedom Pass / Zip pass / staff pass or similar and touches it on the bus for travel. The driver would not identify an irregularity of this type. What about staff fraud for example? How would you detect this without the presence of Revenue Protection Inspectors? Then there is the deterrent factor. If passengers know their is a possibility of a ticket check then clearly this will act as a deterrent in some cases. There are numerous other types of issues and irregularities that I could talk about but for obvious reasons I'm not going to disclose these o n a public forum. But not too blinkered to realise that employing large numbers of RPI's to catch a small number of fare dodgers is simply not cost effective Says the man who is more than happy to see 1,000+ "conductors" employed on NB4Ls and who demanded that *more* RPIs be employed in squads during the period of open boarding cashless bendy bus operation. Nothing like consistency is there? Given fraud on TfL services is still measured in the tens of millions it is surely still worth employing trained and skilled people, rather than dumbo security guards dressed up as revenue people like the TOCs do, to detect and deter fraudulent travel? Would you care to say what the level of on bus fraud is and what scale of resource you believe should be employed given your pronouncements about "cost effectiveness"? You must have a view given the strength of feeling in your post above. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2013 7:00:08 GMT
Did I? I really cannot recall demanding any such thing!
The current level of RPI's is probably about right, you might come across one once in a blue moon
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