London Banter - View Single Post - Chaos likely when they close ticket windows at King's Cross St. Pancras

spud-u-dont-like@potato.field · March 30th 15, 10:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 08:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
Since there are almost always non-trivial queues at every King's Cross ticket
machine how is that going to work, then?

Last time I had to wait for one of the party to use a King's Cross ticket
office it was because he needed to buy a priv ticket. How will that work
without a ticket office?

Stop trying to understand it as improving passenger service and instead think
of it as cost cutting and it all makes sense. Its the same BS line supermarkets
feed us when they try and pretend that self service machines are for our
benefit whereas in fact they're raison d'etre is simply to replace an ongoing
cost - staff wages - with a one off fixed cost - the machines.

The fact that the mayor and his TfL minions keep spinning us this line of
improved service shows the utter contempt they hold the travelling public in.

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Spud