The broken scanner at the Jervis Centre is causing me a lot of pain. I work about 50 meters away from that stop, and a northern line commuter. When I am running late for the train, and the Luas already there or due, I just don’t have the time to run up to the next scanner to get it tagged – half the time I carry on and board the Luas, fully aware that I am breaking the law, feeling guilty etc.
Meanwhile, some ticket checkers actually do have the scanner device to verify the smart card tagging, they checked mine one morning, takes them two seconds to verify if its tagged or not.