On 18/09/2016 22:24, Recliner wrote:

Graham Murray wrote:
[...]
I always pay my fare of course. I can't see how you can eliminate
evasion easily on these buses or the DLR.

Do not get rid of the conductors[1] and make it part of their duties to
observe that everyone boarding via the middle or rear door touches in
and the green light shows.

[1] I thought that they had already gone but when I was in London at the
end of last month, the only Boris Bus I travelled on had a conductor[2]
and the rear platform doors were open.

[2] I am assuming that the man, with a TfL logo on his shirt, standing
on the rear platform throughout my journey was the conductor.

They are not conductors, of course. They're 'platform attendants'. Their
sole job is to try and persuade passenger not to jump off moving buses, or
ones stopped in the middle of traffic. Perhaps their presence persuaded
more people to touch in, but that wasn't their role, and no-one supervised
the middle doors.


I recall one looking slightly alarmed as I ran and jumped on to an
accelerating bus, something I did that plenty of times on the old
Routemasters.

(I also learnt my lesson as a kid that jumping off a Routemaster too
early wasn't such a great idea! We used to have a bit of a competition
to see who was the most daring...)