On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:56:33 -0000, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:

wrote:

When do they plan to install gates for the Waterloo & City?

You don't need them at Waterloo as Bank is gated and there are no
intermediate stops.

So? You can get transfer onto another line or the DLR via the passageway.

Anyone remember when there was a gateline in the passageway, even though it
was years after London Underground had taken control of the line?

I wonder why they didn't retain that gateline as an internal barrier (as
with the Jubilee at Stratford). Of course it would mean another station that
you'd need a huge book to understand how to use Oyster with!

You have answered your own question. The old DLR gateline was set to be
an OSI to get from the "closed" part of Bank to the "open" W&C.
Nonetheless LU struggled to put staff at that gateline when LU did not
have responsibility for the W&C. It was therefore a low priority and
often left open IME.

Over the years pressure grew to control fraud on the W&C once it was in
LU control. In theory you could have retained the DLR gateline and put
the new W&C one in but it would mean two sets of gates within
centimetres of each other. Although I was not involved in the actual
implementation of the W&C gates I would guess the argument was that it
was more sensible to put the DLR corridor within the paid area
controlled by the W&C gateline.

The Stratford JLE gateline is always for interchange and affords no
direct exit to the street at all and thus does not have the
complications of Bank to factor in.

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Paul C