In message
, at
08:58:07 on Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Fat richard
remarked:
I passed trough very briefly on Tuesday and got poked by a young girl
with one of those big foam pointing fingers. She was taking her remit
to send people to the departure hall a little too literally. All good
natured stuff but she really was most insistant that I didn't want to
go into the arrivals hall.

I was surprised to see lots of retail still in the Arrivals hall this
morning, I was expecting it to have closed along with the ticket office.

It seems odd to restrict outgoing punters to the choice in the departure
hall, if there's a wider choice by including the arrivals hall.
--
Roland Perry

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:16:43 +0000, Roland Perry put finger to keyboard and
typed:

In message
, at
08:58:07 on Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Fat richard
remarked:
I passed trough very briefly on Tuesday and got poked by a young girl
with one of those big foam pointing fingers. She was taking her remit
to send people to the departure hall a little too literally. All good
natured stuff but she really was most insistant that I didn't want to
go into the arrivals hall.

I was surprised to see lots of retail still in the Arrivals hall this
morning, I was expecting it to have closed along with the ticket office.

Well, it will be closing when the extension is demolished. My guess is that
the retail operators have a lease until that time and will stay open until
then. Obviously, they're not going to be making as much money over the next
few months as they did before, but unless it becomes a complete lossmaker
there's no reason to close before they have to.

It seems odd to restrict outgoing punters to the choice in the departure
hall, if there's a wider choice by including the arrivals hall.

They're clearly concerned about people not understanding that they have to
go to the new departures hall in order to buy tickets or get on a train.
Given the propensity of the travelling public to completely ignore signs
and directions, that's probably reasonable in the short term.

Mark
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In message e.net, at
18:30:43 on Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Mark Goodge
remarked:
It seems odd to restrict outgoing punters to the choice in the departure
hall, if there's a wider choice by including the arrivals hall.

They're clearly concerned about people not understanding that they have to
go to the new departures hall in order to buy tickets or get on a train.
Given the propensity of the travelling public to completely ignore signs
and directions, that's probably reasonable in the short term.

But there's a (possibly temporary) passage from the arrivals hall to the
departures hall, which currently makes that the best way to get from the
original ticket hall to the departures hall.

There are people with "foam fingers" trying to dissuade you, but I think
they protest too much!
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message
,
at 08:58:07 on Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Fat richard
remarked:
I passed trough very briefly on Tuesday and got poked by a young girl
with one of those big foam pointing fingers. She was taking her remit
to send people to the departure hall a little too literally. All good
natured stuff but she really was most insistant that I didn't want to
go into the arrivals hall.

I was surprised to see lots of retail still in the Arrivals hall this
morning, I was expecting it to have closed along with the ticket
office.

It seems odd to restrict outgoing punters to the choice in the
departure hall, if there's a wider choice by including the arrivals
hall.

Only in the short term, surely?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 15:18:44
on Thu, 22 Mar 2012, remarked:
I was surprised to see lots of retail still in the Arrivals hall this
morning, I was expecting it to have closed along with the ticket
office.

It seems odd to restrict outgoing punters to the choice in the
departure hall, if there's a wider choice by including the arrivals
hall.

Only in the short term, surely?

Until the Spring, anyway.

Sorry, just come back from a meeting in Westminster where it was
explained (for the umpteenth time) that Spring lasts from February to
November.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
15:18:44 on Thu, 22 Mar 2012, remarked:
I was surprised to see lots of retail still in the Arrivals hall this
morning, I was expecting it to have closed along with the ticket
office.

It seems odd to restrict outgoing punters to the choice in the
departure hall, if there's a wider choice by including the arrivals
hall.

Only in the short term, surely?

Until the Spring, anyway.

Sorry, just come back from a meeting in Westminster where it was
explained (for the umpteenth time) that Spring lasts from February to
November.

Not as long as summer then? ;-)

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Mar 22, 10:09*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
[...]
Until the Spring, anyway.

Sorry, just come back from a meeting in Westminster where it was
explained (for the umpteenth time) that Spring lasts from February to
November.

Aha, government seasons!