wrote:
It seems FCC have ****ed up nicely. My wife got the line from moorgate
back to finsbury went through the gates on the platform then onto the
piccadilly line. When she left the latter she got stung with a penalty
fare.
It seems the platform gates at FP have been set up as entry/exit gates
rather
than transfer gates. Thats nice of them. Are they trying to discourage
people using the moorgate line or are they just indifferent cretins who
really arn't interesting in implementing PAYG effectively and this is
their 2 fingers to the mayor?


More the latter I'd suggest (albeit without the two fingers) - it sounds
like what passengers have to do (as per the system design) is touch-in again
when heading down to the Tube platforms (i.e. it's configured as an
out-of-station interchange, aka OSI) - however whether there's anything to
communicate this to pax is another matter.

It seems a bit reminiscent of the situation at Tottenham Hale, where the
Tube is gated whilst the mainline platforms are not, but a passenger
transferring between the two needs to touch-in again on walking to the
mainline platforms, or likewise touch-out on leaving them before heading to
the Tube. In other words these are out-of-station interchanges, without the
passenger ever leaving the station property.

(Yes, the same could be said of Tube stations at mainline termini,
particularly Euston where not all the mainline platforms which serve
PAYG-land are gated - but that situation does seem a bit different, not
least because of the relatively clear delineation between the mainline and
Tube station.)