A person has been fined greater than £500 for getting into a tube staton on rollerskates.
John Cejas rolled into Whitechapel Station in Tower Hamlets, east London and skated by means of the obstacles at round 12.30pm on July 11 this yr.
He was pulled up by station workers who mentioned he had breached Underground guidelines forbidding all wheeled autos inside stations and onboard trains.
TfL proceeded to prosecute Cejas in September for being in breach of Byelaw 15, which states that every one passengers should enter the community on foot.
Sophie Taylorson, a TfL official, informed a magistrates court docket she noticed Cejas arrive on the station with curler skates on his toes.
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She mentioned Cejas, of Manor Park in east London, handed over his particulars when requested.
Cejas, 27, didn’t enter a plea, and was handed a high-quality of £220 on prime of £250 in prices, in addition to an £88 sufferer surcharge, coming to £558 in whole.
TfL guidelines say that passengers should not use ‘bicycles, curler skates, curler blades, scooters, skateboards or hoverboards’ on buses, in stations or on platforms.
His case was one in every of greater than 700 introduced by TfL by means of the one justice process final week, the Customary reported.
The vast majority of circumstances relate to fare evasion, which authorized motion additionally taken in opposition to passengers utilizing scooters inside TfL area, smashing by means of obstacles or trying to tailgate different passengers.
Hassan Arif, 46, was fined a complete of £558 after trying to tail one other traveller by means of the obstacles at King’s Cross station.
Arif’s court docket papers have been despatched to a at the moment closed hostel within the space, and it stays unclear if he was even conscious that he had been prosecuted.
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