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Richard J. · February 17th 05, 08:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:

[snip]
i) Their experience shouldn't be improved by adding delay to
regular passengers. They should be treated equaly

Ah, equally badly.

No, just the same as everyone else ie no preferential treatment at
the expense of others.

What you seem to forget is that you're talking about the reopening of a
station after it had been closed because of overcrowding. You said
yourself:
"when South Ken re-opened why were famalies being waved through and
normal commuters being shouted at by staff? All this served to do was
cause a further back log as kids slowly walked down the stairs accross
the whole width."

If you've got a mixture of adult commuters, parents and children,
including toddlers in push-chairs, all of whom have had their journey
home disrupted, and you then give them all access to the platform
together, you've got all the elements of a potentially dangerous crowd
situation on the stairs and on an island platform with 630 volts DC on
either side. It seems very sensible to me that in the circumstances LU
should let the most vulnerable members of this crowd through first.
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Richard J.
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