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[email protected] · February 5th 14, 05:28 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:30:28 -0600
wrote:
I am bemused by this. Does anyone have the ticket office usage figures over
the last decade? I can't believe they haven't fallen pretty sharply. And
station staffing is going to be maintained as demonstrated on Overground,
just not in booking offices, isn't it?

Station staffing can't be maintained if they're letting 400 staff go via
voluntary redundancy. Thats almost 2 staff per station.

Anyway , this staff-on-the-platform nonsense is just spin. They installed
help points years ago on all stations precisely so staff DIDN'T have to mill
around on the platform all day doing nothing. So either its a complete
volte-face with that policy or its just a lot of BS designed to placate
everyone. I suspect the latter. Their ultimate goal is quite obviously to
have unmanned stations as per the DLR. Which is fine by me - free travel.
I can't remember the last time I bothered to pay with my PAYG on the DLR.

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Spud