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Definition of fare dodging in English: fare dodgingnoun mass nounBritish informal The action or practice of travelling on public transport without paying the required fare. there were posters on the bus about fare dodging and I began to get a guilty conscience Example sentencesExamples - Train companies need to take a firm but fair approach to fare dodging because unfortunately there will always be people who try to get away without paying.
- Commuters in the north west said they were more likely to intervene if they saw an incident of physical abuse or theft, rather than fare-dodging.
- Extra officers will travel on trams to stamp out anti-social behaviour and fare dodging, Metrolink has announced.
- First Great Western encountered its worst fare-dodging problems around the time of the Glastonbury Festival last year.
- One easy way to reduce fare-dodging from the current 2.2 % of journeys to virtually nothing is simplicity itself: reintroduce bus conductors.
- Complaints from season ticket holders about lack of enforcement action by rail staff to stop fare-dodging were rising, he said.
- Some passengers feel it would cut down on vandalism, fare dodging and rowdy behaviour if there was another person on board to help the driver, especially at night.
- While we support cracking down on deliberate fare-dodging, if is unfair to victimise passengers who have made an honest attempt to buy their ticket before boarding.
- Public transport is cheap and no one seems to ever check your ticket, but in a country where the transport police carry guns, I don't recommend fare dodging.
- The problem with fare-dodging is that in the long run it ends up costing all of us.
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