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Old December 18th 07, 10:53 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default St P.I..L.L Impressions.

jonmorris wrote:
On 11 Dec, 11:08, Sky Rider wrote:

What I'm personally more annoyed about are the new gates - at the moment
you have to shove your (paper) ticket through the slot, and the flaps
themselves are so slow they make it easier for tailgaters to pass
through behind someone else (compared to the other two sets of gates on
the LU network anyway).


The gates are shockingly slow, just like those in use throughout
King's Cross. I don't like them one bit (about 10 people can pass
through with you) but for the sake of Paul C's sanity, I won't start
ranting about them again!!


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I used SPILL again yesterday and found that it is not so hard to push
your ticket through the slot now (perhaps the slots have been lubricated
by the sheer number of tickets they've handled now). I also noted that
there are 13 automatic gates at the entrance/exit (11 narrow, 2 wide).