Transport for London - what are my rights with this excessive fine??help

ForkHandles_2

Well done, very tactful.

Chris_Willsher

fair enough..guess i did wrong..still seems unfair, 540 quid for a one pound journey..

Antispam

It wouldn't be £540 if you paid fine promptly

topbadger

Chester85 wrote: »

Tickets are not transferable. You used someone else's Oyster Card, how do they know it was a friends? You could have picked it up from the street or robbed someone. He's got every right to take it off you.

Actually, depends on the Oystercard. If it had a season ticket loaded on it, it's not transferrable. But if it's a pay-as-you-go, they can be used by anyone.

pinkshoes

Did your friend get their card back???

I would have said I that a friend left the card at your house, hence it wasn't swiped, and you didn't have any change for the ticket machine.

Did they not give you chance to pay the "on the spot" fine? (or don't TFL do that??).

Why didn't you go to court? By not going, I think you've now missed your opportunity to plead your case. Perhaps you could claim you didn't get the court summons and ask for it to go to court again?

I think you need to speak to CAB, and you should also check your credit rating, as this has no doubt ruined your credit rating, which could prevent you getting a loan or mortgage in the future!

hippey

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hippey

It's not clear from the OP if he was penalty fared for this but normally if you board and have not intention to touch in then it normally would be a straight prosecution. Either way an unpaid penalty fare or report would end up at Brent Magistrates and the outcome would be the same, your lucky it is baliffs you could yet be wanted for non payment of fines and be brought before the court to explain it. TfL really do push these cases through and you really did get quite a low fine.

pendulum

You are a fool, the £540 is for the peoples time you've used up, people have had to issue court proceedings (which you ignored) and carry them out, people have had to travel to your house to hand you documents... this isn't all free! If you hadn't have broken the law, if you had paid your fare in the first place then you wouldn't have this problem, so don't feel too victimised.

sweetstudent

You deserve the fine! You fare dodged, you refused to attend court.
What i dont get is, you had a oyster card on you, albeit not yours and you didnt even swipe.

On your other thread i said that i dont live in London, but i always make sure i swipe in.
Well think of it this way, your FREE journey cost you £540!

Chris_Willsher

well basicaly, i jumped on, didnt swipe, then a bus conductor got on, so i swiped it then, way into the journey, but he was checking everyones tickets and oysters and then he saw mine didnt belong to me, then he took it and took my adress and let me continue my journey, but i wasnt given the option of paying a fine, it went straight to court!
im realy nieve, i admit that, i didnt think it would go to court..yes its my fault, im not trying to make myself out to be in the right, at all, and as usual loads of horrible people are replying to me being rude and smug and its a shame cuz im dead nice and always pay my way, i wasnt feeling well that day, at all, and yeah i just wanted to share it with people cuz my friend recoomended this martin lewis guy to help out, but instead people are just mean, with the exeption of one or two..
anyway, i know im in the wrong and i guess for doing once what ive seen so many people do when they get onto a bendy bus i have to accept the consiquences, i was just hoping someone would say it was a little exsessive and would have some advice..i guess i thought it was weird they didnt just send me a fine from tfl, and that it went straight to court and was in the hundreds when it got the that stage..
thanks anyway