I will look into the Totteridge problem. I would of thought that some of the
gates are not reversible so you should always have a way in and a way out.
Not withstanding any faults of course. Gates should always be left in an
open position if there are no staff.

Finchley Central gates have not been commissioned as such because staff have
no place of safety available and more importantly there is a total lack of
space in the ticket hall.

The hazard tape has been put the

1, To stop the use of paper tickets as they can create faults and
subsequently close the gates.
2, If a customer was to loose their ticket there may not be a member of
staff available to retrieve it.
3, On top of one of the sensors as the gate is set for exit only and as the
gates are permanently open people were putting their oyster card on it
thinking it would work.

Since the introduction of pre-pay there has been a increase in the amount of
people using the sensors however some just ignore the warning bleep and so
do not validate their oyster properly and some use the exit validators on
the way in. These people will at one time end up with unresolved journeys or
worse pay to much for their journey. My hope is that they will learn quickly

"Simon Hewison" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Newt wrote:

Leyton tube about 8pm Saturday night.

Hope there weren't too many pre-pay people going through...

Not Leyton, but Totteridge and Whetstone, for a few days all the gates
were set to "Entry only", but with the gates open. The oystercard readers
on the 'inside' part of the gates had no lights whatsoever, and wouldn't
accept. Problem then was on walking through the 'open' gates, it picked
up an attempt to enter again, leaving an unresolved journey on there and
a potential overcharge. The station, as it often is, was unmanned.

There is clearly a need for station staff to understand they can't just
leave the gates in the state that they've been in for the past few
years. (open, and in whatever state they happen to be in).

I have noticed that at Finchley Central, the gates in the ticket hall have
had their slots for paper tickets taped up, and they're now just acting
as entry/exit validators. (They were placed in a rather silly place
anyway as you could easily just walk around to the other side of the
gates).

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Simon Hewison