In message , at 10:16:49
on Mon, 10 Mar 2014, remarked:
Back in the day there would be chaps with portable machines issuing
tickets as well as the windows/machines, and not providing that is
simply yet another way that the ToCs show lack of empathy with the
public.

There still are floorwalkers.

Whenever needed, or just from time to time?

Meanwhile, if they had a counter with Edmondson day-returns to London
sold for cash only, the number of people they could serve would more
than double instantly!

I doubt that.

You are the one saying that most passengers are heading for Kings Cross.
Being able to sell them a ticket for cash in 10 seconds will vastly beat
the current rigmarole.

I found that staggering but I guess it illustrates the scale of demand.
It's been a long while since I visited Cambridge so I'm possibly out of
date about the stop locations.

The MGB stops have currently been moved "temporarily" about two
hundred yards further from the station, but I'm not betting they will
move back ever. I think they used to be where the rising bollards are
in this Streetview, but are now where the bus-in-the-distance with
the red rear lights is:

http://goo.gl/maps/ubaH2

You're out of date, again, Roland. The southbound stops are concentrated at
the station end of their layout at present,

So within a bus length of the bollards?

while the H block behind platform 3 is completed. The stops are in all
their usual positions on the northbound side

Back to within a bus length of the bollards?

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Roland Perry