page_title: Fare evasion
section_title: On stations
hierarchical_section_title: Fare evasion / Methods / On stations
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Безбилетные пассажиры перелезают через забор станции для обхода турникетов. На заднем плане - электропоезд ЭР2-1213 English: Passengers without tickets (stowaways) climbing over a fence of train station to avoid jumping over turnstiles. On the background the ER2-1213 electric train is visible
context_page_description: Fare evasion or fare dodging, Fare violation, rarely called ticket evasion, is the act of travelling on public transport without paying by deliberately not purchasing a required ticket to travel. It is a problem in many parts of the world, and revenue protection officers and ticket barriers, manned or automatic, are in place to ensure only those with valid tickets may access the transport. The term fare avoidance is sometimes used as a euphemistic synonym and sometimes used to refer to the lawful use of much cheaper tickets.
  Fare evasion and fare fraud may or may not be a crime depending on which jurisdictions. The fare not paid, compared to potential penalties and hassle, is generally considered "not worth it".
context_section_description: One method of fare evasion is jumping or climbing over the turnstiles which bar the entryway into a subway system; hence the term, "turnstile jumping". Fare-dodgers also can walk right behind a passenger with a valid ticket before closing of some types of ticket barrier gates (this called tailgating). Other methods include adults traveling on children's tickets, or using discounted tickets or free passes that the passenger is not entitled to. They also can purchase a valid ticket for a shorter journey, at a much lower price than their actual journey to travel to cities where the target station is also served by many local services.
  However, ticket barriers are often watched by ticket inspectors and guards, and in that case fare-dodgers may climb over fences of a station or simply walk alongside railway tracks or use passes for railway staff to enter or exit the station without passing through ticket barriers. In some cases fare-dodgers can break and destroy fences around a train station to make a passage.
caption: Climbing over fence of a commuter train station in Moscow, Russia.
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