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Old May 5th 14, 06:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Richard J.[_3_] Richard J.[_3_] is offline
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tim..... wrote on 05 May 2014 17:58:04 ...


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 12:42:19 on Mon, 5 May
2014, Edward Cowling remarked:
Three-day London Underground strike suspended
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27282596


"Mr Hufton added: "Modernisation of the Tube means that it is our
intention to close all ticket offices, used in less than 3% of journeys"

As ever, it would aid transparency to know what the percentage was if they
excluded season tickets (to a first approximation I won't insist that an
annual season ticket bought at a ticket office counts as 400+ journeys).


I am of similar mind

I thought that the initial claim was only 3% of passengers use TOs

But 3% of *all*TfL journeys is a huge number, especially when you think
that a single ride on the bus counts as one journey and I can't imagine that
many of those start at a TO.


Who is saying it's 3% of ALL TfL journeys? The quote I saw was from
Phil Hufton of LU in the context of LU ticket offices and LU journeys.
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