| Comment | I'd imagine they'd do it the same way they do it with the ban on drinking alcohol on trains after 9pm. Stick up a bunch of notices and make lots of announcements, as it's a condition of travel if you're caught doing it you can be fined and the transport police notified. I'd imagine that would be enough to have most people comply.
Along side that they could enforce it the same way they do with tickets, so at bigger stations staff might be able to stop you from going through the barrier if you've not got a mask, and on the train if you're not wearing a mask the conductor could advise you on the rules, if you don't want to put the mask on, then the train stops at the next station until you exit (same as they do with tickets at the moment).
It's obviously not perfect and you'll get people who still try and get on without them, but I'd imagine the vast majority would be sensible and if you were insisting on not wearing one then getting chucked off the train before your stop a few times would make you think about wearing one.
They could also try the Spanish method, they don't really have a conductor, it's more a security guard/bouncer (who had a big baton for some reason). They seem to have the power to physically remove people from the train. |
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