Tube fare dodging soars as TfL prosecutes 10,000 fewer people than pre-Covid

Transport for London is prosecuting about 10,000 fewer fare dodgers a year than immediately before the pandemic, latest figures revealed on Friday.

The scale of fare evasion is also soaring, with Tube station staff alerting enforcement teams to more than 756,000 cases last year – up 51 per cent on the previous year.

Fare evasion costs TfL an estimated £130m a year in lost