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Kevin · October 21st 04, 11:02 AM posted to uk.transport.london

Jim Brittin [wake up to reply] wrote in message om...
In article ,
says...
If what you say is correct it is against all procedures.....circulating
areas, particularly at the top of the escalator must be fee flowing to
prevent accidents... I will be there tommorrow morning and have a look.

"Kevin" wrote in message
om...
It seems that at least every week there are ticket checks at Vauxhall
Victoria line station. I am not sure that I see the point of
constantly checking the valitity of a ticket when the gate would
reject an invalid ticket.
This morning there was a dangerous mass of people congergrating at the
top of the escalator resulting in a lot of pushing and shoving as
everybody had their tickets visually checked.
What are they expecting to find?

Kevin

Maybe it's to check on the mature 'children' I frequently observe using
gates at stations.

Then why not programme the gates to reject child tickets so that I can
be spared having to show my ticket that I then immediately put into
the gate for checking.
I don't understand what it is they are expecting to find that the
gates wouldn't.