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[email protected] · March 10th 14, 10:49 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 21:19:04 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 15:22:07
on Sun, 9 Mar 2014, remarked:
In contrast, it sometimes seems like significant swathes of TOC-run
suburban rail services in London simply don't have any revenue
protection strategy, barring automatic gates at key stations (and
sometimes they're only in operation during morning and evening
peaks).

The opposite at Cambridge at present. The gates are open at peak hours
at the behest of the ORR because passenger volumes are so high.

The current gates at Cambridge are typical of those shoe-horned into an
unsuitable location just to tick a box. Perhaps the redeveloped station
will have more room, more gates, and fewer such episodes.

And if I had been "ticket gate dictator" Cambridge would never have
been gated given the lack of space to provide sufficient gate
throughput for the demand.

These half arsed installations don't really help the case that
installing gates is generally beneficial (carefully worded on
purpose). That ORR has insisted they're left powered down in the peaks
shows someone got their sums and safety justification very wrong
indeed. If you can't cope with peak demand then don't bother.

The new gate line will be about 50% larger I estimate. The circulating space
will about double.

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Colin Rosenstiel