"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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I'm only just catching up on the series, and watched the one about revenue
inspectors yesterday. Doing some quick sums on the back of an envelope, it
seems it costs them about as much to run the revenue inspectors as the
fares they are failing to collect (£20m a year). In any event that's 1% of
their turnover, and not the complete financial disaster they portray it
as. Although I agree there's an element of "encouraging the others" so you
have to been seen to be doing *something*.

I'm not entirely convinced that you have to "be seen to be doing something"
with a barriered system that requires fare evaders to be really antisocial
to avoid paying

tim