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TheOneKEA wrote:
I was at Stratford Station today and noticed something very
distressing: the lack of a second gateline between the Central Line/NR
platforms and the Jubilee Line platforms means that Pre-Pay users who
don't see the validators on the Central Line platforms (there aren't
very many and they're not easy to find) will mis-validate when they
try to pass the gateline to get to the Jubilee Line. Even stranger is
that there appears to be no obvious way to reach the Jubilee Line
platforms from the street without passing the entrance gateline and
the Jubilee Line and mis-validating again.

Is this a known issue or has no one simply noticed?

I don't know when they started to plan Oyster, but the gateline layout
at Stratford dates from about 1996 (from memory). Originally there was
only going to be the one gateline in the new Concourse - that guarding
the Jubilee Line. The old station entrance (to the east of the
concourse) had no gateline or even proper ticket barriers.

It was then decided to install the one guarding ALL the lines. We had
to add the gateline to the drawings, and more importantly from our
point-of-view, the additional accommodation for the additional ticket
offices and machines at the eastern end of the station.

When the station opened there was a major revenue operation mounted.
That was when they realised the number of people who had been
travelling without tickets. Many of them got quite offended when
confronted by a gateline!!

John Haines
Design Manager for Hyder Consulting for the Stratford Concourse project.