How can it be LULs fault that people push in the queue and take your ticket
because you allow them to do so.?
Do you allow peopel to walk up to you in the street and take things from
you?
It happens quite regularly. The naughty people dont leave the barrier until
you have put your ticket in, they take it, go sell it and buy drugs. Or
alcohol.
Dont put it in until the person in front has left.

Or buy an Oyster. Problem solved.

Mal

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James Farrar wrote:


You appear to have got into trouble because you inserted your ticket
before the person in front of you had passed through the gate.

That's your fault.

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James Farrar
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And at very crowded stations if people didn't do that it would take
twice as long to clear the passengers making the overcrowding even
worse, not to mention the abuse from the passengers behind complaining
about the hold ups or people pushing in. That would be LUL's fault. Do
you have any suggestions?

Kevin

Mal wrote:
How can it be LULs fault that people push in the queue and take your ticket
because you allow them to do so.?
Do you allow peopel to walk up to you in the street and take things from
you?
It happens quite regularly. The naughty people dont leave the barrier until
you have put your ticket in, they take it, go sell it and buy drugs. Or
alcohol.
Dont put it in until the person in front has left.

Or buy an Oyster. Problem solved.

Mal

I think that you are confusing two separate issues. Do I allow people
to take things off of me in the street, no I don't.
I am required by LUL to put my ticket into the gate it is therefore out
of my control. Note that there is nothing written on the gate to say
they you should only insert the ticket after the previous person has
removed theirs. If that is the case then LUL should say so.
Alternatively if you should not insert your ticket until the previous
ticket is removed then the mechanism should prevent you from doing so.
Better luck next time.

Kevin

wrote:


I think that you are confusing two separate issues. Do I allow people
to take things off of me in the street, no I don't.
I am required by LUL to put my ticket into the gate it is therefore
out
of my control. Note that there is nothing written on the gate to say
they you should only insert the ticket after the previous person has
removed theirs. If that is the case then LUL should say so.
Alternatively if you should not insert your ticket until the previous
ticket is removed then the mechanism should prevent you from doing so.
Better luck next time.

Is there a sign telling you that you're allowed to breathe, or are you
simply incapable of looking after yourself and need somone to wipe your arse
for you?

wrote:

removed theirs. If that is the case then LUL should say so.
Alternatively if you should not insert your ticket until the previous
ticket is removed then the mechanism should prevent you from doing so.
Better luck next time.

I agree that ticket gates should not really allow pipelining (like
an ATM won't let you insert your ATM card until it's done some hosekeeping
pertaining to the pervious user).

But on a ticket gate, this would involve a mechanical shutter opening and
closing at about 1Hz for maybe 4 hours non-stop. This would inevitably lead
to breakdowns.

Richard [in PE12]