In message , David Walters
writes
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:10:00 GMT, Mark Etherington wrote:
At the moment, it looks like even if the gates are open, the scanners on
the gates can still be active. Of course, LU would have to educate
customers to pass their Oyster card over the scanner whether or not they
needed to in order to open the gate.

Which they do.

"On the Tube you must touch your card on the card reader
when you enter the gates and also when you exit, even if
the gates are open."

Seems fairly clear to me.

Surely this will cause problems at times when the gates are open because
a large number of people need to be moved out of the station at a high
rate. I'm thinking particularly here of places like Hyde Park Corner
during events in the Park. Surely everybody stopping to have their
Oysters scanned is going to reduce throughput somewhat.

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