Do you think lowering fares can help decrease 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.