On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:29:19 GMT, Neil Williams wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:02:59 -0600,
wrote:
Not impressive. The wide gates are much newer than the rest too.
And feel cheap and nasty compared with the older air-powered "normal"
gates.
The 3rd-generation gates (which all of the wide gates are) are a
bugbear of mine. They seem far slower and more prone to failure than
the older ones. Plus, with paper tickets, they seem have an issue
where the ticket sometimes gets stuck in the mechanism, and the thing
that's meant to write the last-used gateline onto part of the
magstripe ends up scribbling all over it, making the ticket useless in
ticket gates thereafter. (When this happens the ticket churns around
in the mechanism for a while, is eventually spat out with an 08 error,
then all future attempts to use it anywhere receive an 09 error.)