C2C prosecutions

[cvs]

Passenger fined £15k for 'short ticketing' as c2c recovers £596k from fare dodgers

South Essex rail operator, Trenitalia c2c, has collected £596,493 in lost revenue this year after clamping down on fare evasion.

www.echo-news.co.uk

Another passenger fined £3181.50 for wrong ticket!

 

[JordR]

The majority or maybe even all of these are unlikely to be fines, I think it's a non-specialist local journalist being a bit imprecise.

£3,181.50 won't be a fine, penalty fare, out of court settlement or anything else for a single journey. It's much more likely to be several (even dozens or hundreds) of cases where no or an invalid ticket was held.

 

[Hadders]

Passenger fined £15k for 'short ticketing' as c2c recovers £596k from fare dodgers

South Essex rail operator, Trenitalia c2c, has collected £596,493 in lost revenue this year after clamping down on fare evasion.

www.echo-news.co.uk

Another passenger fined £3181.50 for wrong ticket!

This won't be a £3k fine for a single incident of an incorrect ticket.

What it will almost certainly be is an out of court settlement where someone has been caught travelling with an invalid ticket. Their ticket purchasing history will have been checked which will have identified this has happened multiple times and the settlelemt cost will have factored this in.

What is interesting is we rarely see c2c mentioned in this section of the forum. I can only ever remember one case, ever! Compare and contrast to Chiltern who serve some of the most affluent areas of the country. Is this becuase:

- Chiltern's passengers are less honest than those on c2c?
- c2c do a better job of checking tickets and making sure passengers have the correct ticket
- Chiltern are more robust at dealing with fare evasion than c2c

This article suggests c2c are uping their game so I suspect we will see more cases on here that involve them....

 

[Watershed]

This won't be a £3k fine for a single incident of an incorrect ticket.

What it will almost certainly be is an out of court settlement where someone has been caught travelling with an invalid ticket. Their ticket purchasing history will have been checked which will have identified this has happened multiple times and the settlelemt cost will have factored this in.

What is interesting is we rarely see c2c mentioned in this section of the forum. I can only ever remember one case, ever! Compare and contrast to Chiltern who serve some of the most affluent areas of the country. Is this becuase:

- Chiltern's passengers are less honest than those on c2c?
- c2c do a better job of checking tickets and making sure passengers have the correct ticket
- Chiltern are more robust at dealing with fare evasion than c2c

This article suggests c2c are uping their game so I suspect we will see more cases on here that involve them....

I suspect the fact that all of c2c's stations are barriered plays a role. Donutting is, of course, still possible but given that their network isn't actually that long from one end to the other, you won't be saving a particularly large sum.

 

[methecooldude]

The whole article reads like a paid for press release rather that anything written by a decent journalist. About right for the "local news" websites, the amount of crap that gets written on the one local to me

 

[furlong]

Or does c2c do a much better job of explaining clearly what's going on and treating fare evaders fairly and reasonably, such that few of them feel any need to go searching internet forums for help?

 

[Haywain]

a paid for press release

Paid for? Who would be paying, because it certainly wouldn't be the website that's published the story.

 

[methecooldude]

Paid for? Who would be paying, because it certainly wouldn't be the website that's published the story.

I mean C2C paying to have an article written or their own self-written piece published by the news organisation

 

[Haywain]

I mean C2C paying to have an article written or their own self-written piece published by the news organisation

News organisations don't generally pay for this sort of thing.

 

[methecooldude]

News organisations don't generally pay for this sort of thing.

I said that C2C would pay... not be paid...

 

[Haywain]

I said that C2C would pay... not be paid...

Not a chance - press releases are not adverts, in that they allow journalists to construct a story from them.

 

[AlterEgo]

News organisations now are desperate for content and will run any old pap. You only have to give them a press release.

 

[Gloster]

All sorts of organisations will supply, either by arrangement or on spec., a fully written article to a magazine, photos will often be included in the package, but no money changes hand. The magazine gets an article to fill up space without having to pay for it and the organisation gets a lot of publicity which costs nothing beyond the normal ones of their PR department. The extent to which it goes in exactly as supplied will depend on the magazine‘s editorial policy and the editor’s conscience. Lots of small magazines that are living on the edge are full of these: the skill lies in making it not too obvious.

Here c2c has probably supplied a fully written item to the paper complete with photo. It may get slapped straight in or a journalist may make a few changes and slap their byline on it. Everybody is happy…except the scrotes who tried to bilk the railway.

 

[island]

News organisations now are desperate for content and will run any old pap. You only have to give them a press release.

This. It's going to be an article served up by c2c.