"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 12:42:19 on Mon, 5 May
2014, Edward Cowling remarked:
Three-day London Underground strike suspended
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27282596

"Mr Hufton added: "Modernisation of the Tube means that it is our
intention to close all ticket offices, used in less than 3% of journeys"

As ever, it would aid transparency to know what the percentage was if they
excluded season tickets (to a first approximation I won't insist that an
annual season ticket bought at a ticket office counts as 400+ journeys).

I am of similar mind

I thought that the initial claim was only 3% of passengers use TOs

But 3% of *all*TfL journeys is a huge number, especially when you think
that a single ride on the bus counts as one journey and I can't imagine that
many of those start at a TO.

I still remain convinced that this big bang of closing all TO in one go and
expecting the 1,000,000 people per day to change their habits and suddenly
start using machines is doomed to failure and chaos will ensue - and that's
just considering the people who are queuing, by choice, to buy "normal!"
tickets, ignoring all of the edge cases that the machines can't handle.

And as for rolling it out before they have any idea whatsoever how many
people will switch to pay wave - NUTS! (As commented before, none of my 3
card providers has yet to send me a suitably enabled card - I can't be
alone!)

tim

[1] (3% of 24 million is 720,000 and then there's the bus pax on top)





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Roland Perry