"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 13:01:23 on Fri, 11 Mar
2011, tim.... remarked:

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!

Just shows what different standards you seem to have.

Not sure what you are suggesting.

You must be a very patient person if you can wait ten minutes to buy a
ticket with a family just arrived on holiday and champing at the bit.

But what choice do you have?

Dodge the fare?

This isn't a discussion about whether TfL should do something about queues
at St P.

It's about what type of tickets they should sell. And the fact is that
every type of ticket that is available for a "foreign" child requires you to
get to the front of that (or an alternative) queue.

I quite happy to discuss suggestions that there should be alternative child
tickets to those which are currently available. But, so far no-one has
suggested that

tim