mfc3024
Member
I'd just like to make an observation about the ticket barriers at Glasgow Central when I arrived this morning on the XC from Dunbar on Platform 4 at 8.27.
The barriers were continually rejecting most tickets from passengers and then the staff member was jumping between five gates to let people through after looking the each of the rejected tickets. This obviously caused frustration for passengers as queues were building up and it would be equally annoying for the staff member.
I appreciate that there may have been a fault with one gate but not five and I have seen this level of ticket rejection frequently happen before at Glasgow Central, mainly at the barriers at the exit from the low level platforms.
Are these sorts of barriers ultra sensitive? Obviously they have a job to do and would reject invalid tickets, but why are they rejecting also so many valid tickets? (I'm making an assumption here that the rejected tickets were actually valid as the staff member was letting passengers through).
I have previously seen the barriers just being left open at Platform 4 in order to let passengers through quickly - usually the train goes in to Platform 2 which has no barriers, plus passengers are checked at Motherwell (where the bulk of the passengers board) though I am not sure about Waverley, Haymarket or Dunbar.
The barriers were continually rejecting most tickets from passengers and then the staff member was jumping between five gates to let people through after looking the each of the rejected tickets. This obviously caused frustration for passengers as queues were building up and it would be equally annoying for the staff member.
I appreciate that there may have been a fault with one gate but not five and I have seen this level of ticket rejection frequently happen before at Glasgow Central, mainly at the barriers at the exit from the low level platforms.
Are these sorts of barriers ultra sensitive? Obviously they have a job to do and would reject invalid tickets, but why are they rejecting also so many valid tickets? (I'm making an assumption here that the rejected tickets were actually valid as the staff member was letting passengers through).
I have previously seen the barriers just being left open at Platform 4 in order to let passengers through quickly - usually the train goes in to Platform 2 which has no barriers, plus passengers are checked at Motherwell (where the bulk of the passengers board) though I am not sure about Waverley, Haymarket or Dunbar.