I can assure you its got nothing to do with the staff.....they have no say
in keeping them open. Its a diciplinary offence not to follow instruction
and close them if instructed and the duty managers get a printout each day
telling how long each gate was open, or in the case of the manual gate,
unlocked, down to the millisecond.
If they are left open also a call is received from NCC at Broadway looking
for an explanation. Probably more to do with overcrowding and small areas
before and after the gates. I've not been there ......
Can make enquiries if you want....

Mal

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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.