I would expect that RPU will be out in force until close of service tonight especially on the DART services are at busy locations like Howth etc and everyday until weather returns to normal.
Its days like this where fare dogging will be high unless checks are in place. |
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Well, maybe if Irish Rail could reliably collect the revenue, they might be able to stretch to a 2005 or 2105 to Mullingar or Longford. Chance would be a fine thing.
They were out in force at Connolly at about 5 PM yesterday. Probably more of a visibility operation than a serious attempt to catch people. |
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Tickets are regularly and consistently inspected on long-distance services in Japan, and stamped. |
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The other thing is that maybe Japan is not as fixated on ever decreasing headcount as a measure of how well a company does its business. This is a company that manually turns seats and replaces headrest-cloths at each turnback. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020xlm1 |
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They only target commuter stations in large numbers. As for fare adjustment, passengers here know the exact fares from the TMV's or ticket offices and it would be abused by people taking chances of paying a shorter fare and hoping for the best not to be caught. |
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But on the other hand, every Japanese station of any size has a manned gateline all day. |
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This article states that the evasion rate on the inspections so far has been around 6%. But the reality is that it probably isn't so high as they will be targeting anywhere they have reason to believe is a hot-spot.
6% of revenue is more than 9 million euro. Which I believe is of the order of 3 times the amount of money saved by last autumn's capacity cutbacks. From personal observation, it is demonstrably true that the Irish are more likely to fare-dodge than the Japanese. While racial stereotypes are a bit crude, honesty and honour would be regarded as core traits for Japanese people. I would think that is fair to say that this would not be the case for us Irish. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-29455487.html |
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I agree €9m is a lot of money but I'm sure there is a more efficient way of collecting it, rather than the bullyboy tactics of RPU. If it (this article) is correct that 1 in 16 passengers is a fare evader and I, a regular commuter hasn't noticed (regular fare evasion) then there must be hordes of passenger travelling the country without paying a fare.:eek: - some how I don't think so. |
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