"David Cantrell" wrote in message
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:33:30PM -0000, tim.... wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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just how inconvenient is it to push a few buttons on a ticket machine?
Very, if you'd had to wait ten minutes for the privilege.
How is a 10 minute wait "very inconvenient", for a family with children -
they are hardly going to detrain from Eurostar and need to be, wherever,
in
30 minutes!

Oh, of course, families don't have other trains to catch. I'd forgotten
about that.

I really don't see what all this nit picking is about.

Firstly people criticise the system because it won't be possible to pass two
(or more) people on the one card and the complaint that most people aren't
going to have enough cards for each of their children to have one each (and
at least one person suggested that even if he did have a spare card for his
child to use, he wouldn't "trust" his child with it!)

So I asked why you would want to pay "full fare" for your child anyway,
given that you could go and buy a ticket and people start complaining that
the queues at LT counters are too long, so I suggested buying the ticket
from an NR machine. Then the problem is that these are too far away to be
useful (not at Waterloo they aren't!).

So this problem with queuing only occurs at St P and I say what's the
problem with queuing here anyway, you not going to be in a hurry to get
somewhere having just got off E* and everyone thinks that it's me being
unreasonable.

The problem that you have set yourself is:

1) You DON'T have a wave and pay card for your child to use.
2) You DON'T want to queue up because it is going to take too long.
3) You DON'T want to go to the NR ticket machine because it's too far to
walk.

Guys, HOW THE **** do you suggest that we solve this problem of getting your
child a ticket, given that you all vetoed all of mine!

tim