November 26th 13, 07:51 PM
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Proposal - every Tube ticket office to close by 2015
"tim......" wrote:
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(David Cantrell) wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:26:58PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:19:01 +0000, David Cantrell
wrote:
And for people like my blind mother, there will still be staff
available to help her buy a ticket.
It is probably more economically sound that she travels free than
that there is a ticket office there for her.
Probably. And she would if she lived in London because she'd have some
species of Freedom Pass.
Things get more complicated because my father is a BR pensioner, so they
both get priv rate travel on the tube. I'm guessing that that won't be
available via ticket machines!
How will special tickets like privs be issued without ticket offices? Can
one buy a cash ticket from a machine?
Yes
most people queuing up at the machine are buying "cash" tickets, few of
them are topping up Oysters.
Of course for cash you can substitute card, I assume that you were using
the term to identify the type of ticket bought, not actual payment method
I wonder if TfL will maintain the high premium for "cash" fares once the
ticket offices close? I think the premium was first introduced to deter
people from using the ticket offices.
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