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Fares dodgers 'police squad'
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'ares evasion cost Manchste4 Transport an estimated lm !a year until the PTE set ip a flying squad of uniormed inspectors to carry ■ ut a programme of intensive icket checking three months go.
The eight-man team has ound that nearly three per :ent of passengers try to ivoid paying the proper fare. n May alone, 11 passengers vere found with other peo)le's or out-of-date season ickets, over 800 people had lot paid the proper fare and 100 people had paid no fare at In many cases passengers were given the benefit of the loubt and just had to pay the correct fare.
The GMT revenue loss now looks like being nearly E2m a year and with this in mind the "Revenue Protection Unit" may now be expanded.
GMC Transportation Committee Chairman, air David Silverman said that the unit acts as a deterrent as well as actually catching the offender.
He added that he felt that another strong deterrent would have been the excess fares clause recently dropped from the Government's Transport Bill, to the disappointment of bus operators in Britain.