[michaelt]

So you say - but I've repeatedly seen people allowed to exit through the ticket barriers at my local train station with nothing but a powered off phone as a 'ticket'

[ghaff]

And arguably that's a reasonable response from a policy perspective so long as a small minority of people are actively grifting.

[urbandw311er]

Sure, there exists an element of discretion, but it’s not an official exemption so the parent comment still stands correct.