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

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.


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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

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This morning there was a dangerous mass of people congergrating

Have LUL got a licence for dancing? ;-))

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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.

You are Inspector Sands and ICMFP.

--
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"The British don't like successful people" - said by British failures

Who is Abi Titmuss? What is she? Why is she famous?
http://robinmay.fotopic.net

Now that Christopher Reeve has gone...someones gotta do it.....


"Robin May" wrote in message
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"Malcolm & Nika" wrote the following in:


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.

You are Inspector Sands and ICMFP.

--
message by the incredible Robin May.
"The British don't like successful people" - said by British failures

Who is Abi Titmuss? What is she? Why is she famous?
http://robinmay.fotopic.net

"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
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"Kevin" wrote in message
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This morning there was a dangerous mass of people congergrating

Have LUL got a licence for dancing? ;-))

It looked very odd when I wrote it, looks even more odd now that I have read
it.

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:53:59 +0100,
Kevin Rayner
wrote in :

"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
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"Kevin" wrote in message
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This morning there was a dangerous mass of people congergrating

Have LUL got a licence for dancing? ;-))

It looked very odd when I wrote it, looks even more odd now that I have read
it.

#When... The..
#Eel that you feel
#Doesn't feel like an eel,
#That's a Conger!

Nah, that can't be right. Can people moraygate? Prob'ly only
at Moorgate. :-(

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

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
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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.

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.

So I went to Vauxhall and checked out what you said.
Sure enough there was a revenue exercise there yesterday.
You ask what it is that they can see that the gates dont?

They are solely checking for people who travel through zone 1 without a zone
1 ticket. This is marked on the ticket with the nice colour triangles...easy
to spot without actually reading the ticket. If it was bought north of the
river in a zone 3 to a zone 2 station it will have north colourings. It will
still let you out in a zone 2 station allowing you to travel through zone 1.
RPI sees the north colour triangles, checks it is valid in Z1....hey presto
if its only a £1 ticket....
Incidentally...they caught heaps.


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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
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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.