PaulM
26-04-2006, 15:17
As we all know, one of my main gripes of using the DART is at busy stations the hardworking ticket checking staff tend to be too busy talking to actually check tickets / open gates. We will also know that I complain that these same hardworking folk tend to allow people through the gate, often the flash of a ticket or calculator can be enough to allow entry, this in turn causes delays for people trying to leave the station.
Yesterday I noticed at Pearse St. that the ticketing staff were having their usual difficulty doing their job as they had to talk about the match that would be on that evening. As usual several people flashed tickets / paper clips at them and they were too distracted to see what was shown never mind checking people exiting (how much do IE lose on fair evasion each year?).
It occurred to me that legally you must have a valid ticket to board the Platform. I then realised that for a ticket to be valid, it must be validated which none of these tickets / pens were. This makes the ticket checkers accomplices to crimes which they do nothing to prevent (tell people to use the machines). Since they are complicit in all of this illegal activity, should they not have to pay several hundred thousand euro in fines for mass fair evasion?
Yesterday I noticed at Pearse St. that the ticketing staff were having their usual difficulty doing their job as they had to talk about the match that would be on that evening. As usual several people flashed tickets / paper clips at them and they were too distracted to see what was shown never mind checking people exiting (how much do IE lose on fair evasion each year?).
It occurred to me that legally you must have a valid ticket to board the Platform. I then realised that for a ticket to be valid, it must be validated which none of these tickets / pens were. This makes the ticket checkers accomplices to crimes which they do nothing to prevent (tell people to use the machines). Since they are complicit in all of this illegal activity, should they not have to pay several hundred thousand euro in fines for mass fair evasion?