The Evening Standard has a front-page story today highlighting the £67m that train and tube passengers will pay this year from inadvertently failing to "touch out" their Oyster cards because ticket barriers are left open or do not exist.
Caroline Pidgeon, Lib Dem leader on the London Assembly, told the Evening Standard:
TfL and the train companies are simply profiting from passengers, in addition to hiking fares.
Finger-pointing helps no one. They need to be looking at what changes are needed to minimise the chances of these penalties, for example by installing more barriers at stations.
You can read the full article here.
You can also see coverage of the issue on the BBC website, in the Independent, in the East London Advertiser and in the News Shopper.