Transport for London (TfL) spent almost £22million cracking down on fare dodging across the Tube and bus network over the last year - but only collected £1.3million in penalty charges as a result of that enforcement.
The financial data comes after separate figures revealed that fare evasion across all of TfL’s services fell slightly from an estimated 3.9 per cent of journeys in 2022/23, to 3.8 per cent in 2023/24 - despite total journeys rising by 300million.
