Paul Scott wrote:

When we discussed this in the thread "Gatelines - relative numbers" on Jan
16th onwards, Paul C suggested Liverpool St had about 60 'mainline' ticket
gates.

Apparently Waterloo is getting something around 170 ticket gates. Given
the
similar footfalls (to within the odd 10 million or so), perhaps that is
evidence in itself that Liverpool St needs more gates?

From experience of Liverpool Street in the mornings it often seems that far
too many gates are set for entering the plaform instead of for exiting,
reducing the numbers further. The high numbers (13-17 odd) are especially
bad with some of the exit gates not always recognising my Oyster.

On Aug 18, 11:45*pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" T.C.Roll-
wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:

From experience of Liverpool Street in the mornings it often seems that far too many gates are set for entering the plaform instead of for exiting, reducing the numbers further. The high numbers (13-17 odd) are especially bad with some of the exit gates not always recognising my Oyster.

I agree, and the amount of gates that are broken seems to be very
high. Fairly often there will be a barrier that appears to be working,
but won't actually allow one to put their ticket in the slot,
resulting in frustration and an attempt to use another barrier that
has a large queue of people waiting to get through it. I assume they
staff don't check the barriers in the morning (I'm not ruling out the
possibility that they do check them and they barriers go bad
afterwards).

All the best,
Thirty9.