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Fare evasion or fare dodging[1] is the act of travel without payment on public transit. When considered problematic, it is mitigated by revenue protection officers and ticket barriers, staffed or automatic, are in place to ensure only those with valid tickets may access the transport. The term fare avoidance is sometimes used as a euphemistic synonym[2] and sometimes used to refer to the lawful use of much cheaper tickets.
Fare evasion and fare fraud may or may not be a crime, depending on jurisdiction.
Fareevasion or fare dodging is the act of travel without payment on public transit. When considered problematic, it is mitigated by revenue protection...
cars in 1989. Similarly, fareevasion was taken seriously. The TA began formally measuring evasion in November 1988. When TA's Fare Abuse Task Force (FATF)...
transportation modes such as buses and trains while skipping on paying for his fare through various means, and begging for cash. He would also pass himself off...
2021. "New Embarcadero platform fare gate speeds up transfer to Muni, improves accessibility, reduces fareevasion" (Press release). San Francisco Bay...
Fare avoidance, as distinct from fareevasion, is the lawful use of knowledge to travel using tickets which cost significantly less than the 'normal'...
Malta in August 2013. The introduction of articulated buses increased fareevasion as passengers were able to enter through any door, leading to the buses...
that his office would no longer prosecute low-level offenses such as fareevasion, resisting arrest, prostitution, and cannabis-related misdemeanors unless...
Northern Rail had a reputation[who?] for its rather tough approach on fareevasion, and was known to take passengers to court for underpaying by a matter...
journey are sometimes required to pay an £80 penalty fare or face prosecution for fareevasion. Oyster pre-pay users who have failed to 'touch in' at...
committed a criminal offence. Penalty fares are used to discourage casual fareevasion and disregard for the ticketing rules without resorting to (in the case...
target minor crimes, such as vandalism, loitering, public drinking; and fareevasion, help to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness. The theory was...
November 1976 and February 1977. Fareevasion seemed a small problem compared to the graffiti and crime; however, fareevasion was causing the NYCTA to lose...
A fare strike is a direct action in which people in a city with a public transit system carry out mass fareevasion as a method of protest. Jumping turnstiles...
Presto card is to allow a child to pass through the fare gates at a subway entrance. Fareevasion using a child Presto card results in an estimated $23-million...
booths to discourage fareevasion. Both turnstiles are stainless steel and are bidirectional, allowing passengers to enter with fare payment and to exit...
issuing summonses system wide for fareevasion, littering and smoking. Prior to the 1990s, all summons issued for fareevasion were appearance tickets in criminal...
224 after her. On her maiden trip she was asked to leave the tram for fareevasion – having been offered a free ride, she did not have a ticket. As of March...
en route; evasion thus would require elaborate two-ticket schemes or exiting from paid area without going through fare control. Fareevasion rates are...
will involve a one-way daily ticket issue. This change aims to hinder fareevasion. There are no discount schemes available for non-residents of Italy on...
violation are severe include small payment arrears or public transportation fareevasion.: 141 The National Directory bans the consideration of private information...
and ticket machines to competition, and the incorporation of new anti-fareevasion technologies at stations. During 2023, the RDG announced the planned...
theft of services, and riding public transportation without paying fares (fareevasion), for which he spent additional time in jail and fined monetary penalties...
assiduously seek to recover all the unpaid fares when a passenger who is caught is prosecuted for fareevasion. From January 2010 to May 2011, passengers...
override Mayor Muriel Bowser's veto of the FareEvasion Decriminalization Act, setting the penalty for fareevasion at a $50 civil fine, a reduction from the...