RJ21
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- 24 Apr 2016
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I see only a couple of posts have also mentioned that there is more than one ticket type out there, something which does cause problems, a recent one from Taunton was a person with a print at home having arrived on a Cross Country service from Birmingham only to find the barriers unstaffed but closed. He eventually decided to vault the barriers, he had a valid ticket but of a type which could not be read by the barriers so he was effectively trapped until someone turned up, how long do you wait for?
I can see and fully understand the use of them on metro type systems, on LU they work well and with what 90something% contactless now it's more or less pain free but even so having seen the revenue protection on the Berlin S & U Bahns where there are no barriers, instead swoops by plain clothes staff with hefty fines I know that even metro systems do not need to be barriered.
It was picked up that one thing I find particularly unhelpful is the need to go through barriers to change platforms at some stations (ok my examples were not that brilliant but they're examples). The one advantage of the line being installed at Piccadilly at the moment is all of the platforms will be behind them. I am just hoping that they will extend across the full width of the station as at the moment the preparitory work has only covered the centre half of the station. One of the strangest I have come across has to be Shrewsbury, arriving onto the main island and finding the Pwlhelli service is starting from 3, trip down the stairs, through the barrier, out of the front door of the station and then up the steps onto the platform.
I can see and fully understand the use of them on metro type systems, on LU they work well and with what 90something% contactless now it's more or less pain free but even so having seen the revenue protection on the Berlin S & U Bahns where there are no barriers, instead swoops by plain clothes staff with hefty fines I know that even metro systems do not need to be barriered.
It was picked up that one thing I find particularly unhelpful is the need to go through barriers to change platforms at some stations (ok my examples were not that brilliant but they're examples). The one advantage of the line being installed at Piccadilly at the moment is all of the platforms will be behind them. I am just hoping that they will extend across the full width of the station as at the moment the preparitory work has only covered the centre half of the station. One of the strangest I have come across has to be Shrewsbury, arriving onto the main island and finding the Pwlhelli service is starting from 3, trip down the stairs, through the barrier, out of the front door of the station and then up the steps onto the platform.