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Re: No more free rides on LA subways |
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Posted by davesgcr on Thu Jun 20 17:15:11 2013, in response to Re: No more free rides on LA subways, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Wed Jun 19 18:21:19 2013. If you lose about 5% of revenue by "free riding" - then that seems reasonably OKBalance between collecting everything - cost wise through revenue protection and so on. We had fare "leakage" of over 30% on some lines in the UK when station staffing was reduced and "on train" checking installed - the latter turned out to be an easy operational cost "saving" resulting in high fare avoidance and would you believe it higher anti-social activity (which drove down off peak travellers) Higher levels of "gating" , penalty fares for ticketless travellers etc has basically improved things - but you still see around £240 Million a year lost - out of a £3 Billion revenue take across the country. |
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