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Originally Posted by Ballymore
I disagree that their main problems are due to underinvestment. It's what they do with the investment they get that concerns me.
For instance does anyone else think it's ridiculous that your ticket is checked going onto the platform in Mullingar and then again in about 5 minutes time by a different guy on the train. Same thing happens on the way home, I put my ticket through the automatic barrier in Connolly to get onto the train in the first place so why pay someone to check it again an hour later on the train?
I've nothing against them as individuals - some of them are even pleasant - but surely they could be doing something more productive!
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If there are no barriers at the outer end, then yes tickets should be checked on train. Amaizng how many travellers out of Victoria in London buy a ticket to Clapham Junction to get through the barriers, and have a change of heart over their destination - as discovered with an on train ticket check south of East Croydon. So it is productive. Whether some on here like to acknowledge it or not, there are many who will try and get away without paying fares.
LC