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Old September 24th 04, 09:58 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Robin Mayes Robin Mayes is offline
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Default Ticket barriers at Finchley Central


"Mike Bristow" wrote in message
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Robin Mayes wrote:

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Maybe the only safety concerned is safeguarding the
jobs of the ticket inspecters.


Or perhaps the gates have not been formally comissioned by CTS and

handed
over to LUL?


There's no point; the exit to Station Road is entirly ungated.
Closing it would rouse the ire of - or inconvience - ~50% of the
users of the station. Including me, and Clive!

Gating it was attempted and failed die to unexpected gas or water
mains (if the rumour mill is to believed).


So the safety issue would be that there were unknown pipes buried underneath
the gateline then, rather than the cynical view of some who could only think
of staff protecting their jobs.