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Buses World News
In brief: Worldwide montly news & informations about Buses, Busmakers, Passengers' and the Transport Industry
24.2.11
Cheats * UK - Fined in police blitz on bus fare dodgers
There were no arrests yesterday, and just 10 fines issued
Bolton,Manchester,UK -The Bolton News -18 February 2011: -- Fare-dodgers and fraudsters who con millions of pounds from the public transport system were targeted in a crackdown on some of Bolton’s busiest bus routes yesterday... Inspectors and the police hauled people off the buses and issued them with £50 penalty fares after they were caught without valid tickets... People who travel fraudulently cost bus companies millions of pounds a year— leading to higher fares for honest passengers...Police joined forces with inspectors from the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and First yesterday as they checked more than 2,100 tickets on more than 120 buses all over Bolton... Inspectors look for a range of different tricks... These include older teenagers buying juvenile tickets, out of date tickets and people staying on the bus past the stop they have paid for...Most seriously, police look for fraudsters who print professional-looking counterfeit tickets and sell them to passengers at knock-down prices... Anyone caught fare-dodging can be charged the “standard fare” of £50, while those suspected of more serious offences are arrested... (Image: Greater Manchester Passenger Transport)
BUS TICKETS WORLDWIDE * USA - Riders without proof-of-payment receipts
* NYC Transit agents ticket riders without proof-of-payment receipts on Select Bus Service routes
New York,NY,USA -The New York Daily News, by Pete Donohue -October 30, 2010: -- Enforcement agents have started handing out $100 tickets to riders without proof-of-payment receipts on the new Select Bus Service route in Manhattan... Since Tuesday,NYC Transit special inspectors have handed out about 40 farebeating tickets a day along the route, which features curbside machines on First and Second Aves. for riders to pay before boarding, officials said... For the first two weeks of the new service, which is designed to speed bus travel, the inspectors with NYC Transit's security department only gave warnings. They also helped riders unfamiliar with the payment scheme... That assistance continues, said Vincent DeMarino, agency vice president of security... (Photo by Adams for News - Passengers board the M15 Select Service MTA bus at the South Ferry terminal earlier this month)
* Fiji Islands - Drivers booked for not issuing ones
(Video from YouTube, by illicit3an -28 Jan 2009: Naulu/nakasi - Suva - Yeah, on my local bus route)
Suva,Fiji Islands -The Fiji Village, by Shalvin Deo -30 Oct 2010: -- More than two thousand buses in the country have been checked by the Land Transport Authority in the past two weeks to ensure all drivers and passengers comply with issuance and the production of tickets upon demand by LTA officers... The campaign was launched on the 6th of this month... The issuance of Traffic Infringement Notice for Bus Ticketing started on Tuesday this week... LTA Spokesperson, Doreen Narayan said21 drivers were booked as of Thursday, for failure to issue tickets to passengers...She said a number of passengers have also been booked by LTA officers for failing to produce the ticket upon demand... According to LTA the aim of this campaign is to maintain bus fare at an affordable level and more importantly to avoid any future fare increase... LTA has warned that anyone who fails to produce the ticket will pay a fixed penalty of $50 and maximum $500 or 3 months imprisonment...
Honor system fails * USA - Express bus taken for a ride
Honor system fails miserably when no one checks Bx12 ticket
Bronx,NY,USA -NY Daily News, by Mike Jaccarino -May 19, 2009: --The Bx12 may be fast, but its prepay ticket honor system lets unscrupulous riders pull a fast one on the MTA... Fare-beaters are running rampant over the honor system that governs Bx12 Select Bus Service buses in the Bronx - at the very time the cash-strapped MTA needs the money most... Bronx Boro News counted five farebeaters within one hour on a recent day, 23 more in a half-hour another day, and 15 more within an hour another day, all atthe Williamsbridge Road stop on Pelham Parkway... The Bx12 express buses, marked by flashing blue lights, allow riders, before boarding, to buy tickets from either a MetroCard or coin-operated terminal, the idea being to make the bus ride quicker... The MTA is supposed to have cops and members of its Transit Department of Security riding to check for tickets...(Photo by Harbus/NY Daily News)
OFFENCE * India - 400 passengers travel without tickets on MTC buses everyday
Chennai,India -The Times of India -18 Feb 2009: --Passengers travelling by the Metropolitan Transport Corporation ( MTC) buses are often witness to a bus being halted by MTCticket checking inspectors, sometimes during peak hours, to catch those taking a free ride...In what makes for startling statistics, an average of 350-400 persons are caught daily in Chennai for ticketless travel in MTC buses... The corporation collected Rs 1.40 crore as fines from ticketless travellers in 2008, when the number of ticketless travellers almost doubled, compared to 2007 when only 65,000 offenders were caught... Official sources revealed that as many as 1.27 lakh persons were caught from January to December 2008 for travelling without tickets.In January this year, more than 13,500 passengers were caught for committing the offence and were made to pay fines that totalled Rs 17.27 lakh - the highest amount in fines ever collected by MTC from ticketless travellers in a month... MTCcollects an average of Rs 13 lakh a month as fines for ticketless travel...
