TfL’s Tube Fare Dodging Spin Undermined by New Figures – Guido Fawkes

TfL’s Tube Fare Dodging Spin Undermined by New Figures

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New breakdown figures released by Khan’s Transport for London blow apart the spin it put out after Jenrick’s viral video this year. Who would’ve thought…

After the Jenrick video TfL mounted a defence: “In a statement, it said the fare evasion rate for 2024/25 was averaging 3.4%.“ Slyly that does not refer to the figures for the Underground…

A new report for an upcoming safety and security panel shows the actual breakdown of fare dodging on the Tube, which peaked at 5.1% in the first and last quarters of last year and was 4.8% across the 12 months. That’s above the 4.1% target and far above the figure TfL put out after Jenrick’s video…

Separately the rate of fare evasion on buses is rising dramatically from 1.9% in 2023 to 2.6% last year. Cutting the head of the hydra…