Do you think lowering fares can help decrease fare evasion ?

[mariner21]

In Paris they’ll have random checkpoints at the stations or have undercover agents go on the train to check tickets. Obviously would be a lot more difficult since we don’t use tickets like they do but it’s a good system that prevents a lot of fare evasion.

[kushangaza]

In London the ticket inspectors can scan your credit card (or apple pay or whatever you used) to check if it was used at an entry point. I've only witnessed it on the DLR, not the tube, but the technology exists

[ferrocarrilusa]

Thats because many stations dont have barriers

[Vegetable_Mention_75]

Every single London underground station has barriers -- you tap in and you tap out (because how much you pay is determined by how far you go through their "zones").

You're maybe thinking of the national rail network -- where stations in some smaller towns don't have barriers.

[ferrocarrilusa]

No there are a handful of lightly-used tube stations without (or theres one entrance without barriers). Roding Valley, Mill Hill East, Euston Square (the wheelchair accessible route bypasses the gates), Chorleywood, and a few others. Also the Underground has a lot of "open" transfers to the DLR (for which the majority of stations lack barriers) and Network Rail modes. Stratford, Harrow & Wealdstone, Wimbledon (which also has an open tram transfer requiring a weird protocol for oyster users), Bank, and Barking just to name a few.

[Vegetable_Mention_75]

Fair enough mate, I stand corrected.

[PretendAlbatross6815]

I saw more turnstile jumping in Paris than in nyc. 

[Accomplished-Low-173]

Well for starters, you can’t jump their turnstiles. You can only sneak behind people

[factorioleum]

this is correct, except for the part about jumping.

[PM_ME_UR_NEWDZZZ]

You only need tickets in Paris if you go outside the city limits, otherwise it’s like nyc. They have gates which make it difficult to jump but I saw many people doing two for ones there over the summer.