In article , Cal Nihoni
writes
([1] The point here is that in the absence of staff at the
destination, the only way to pay is to purchase a ticket from the
machine for the reverse journey,

And indeed that reverse-journey purchase simply serves to skew London
Transport's statistics, since they will think an artificially high number of
people are making the B to A journey when they're not;

Except that LUL tickets aren't sold from A to B, they're sold from A to
any location within a set of zones.

And if (as I snipped) this causes LUL to put more people at B, they'll
start selling excess fares from A making it clear where the real problem
is.

OK I accept that the above is tenuous and taking things to extreme,

It also assumes this is a common situation. I strongly suspect it's way
down in the noise.

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