London Banter - View Single Post - Consequences of ticket office closures, part 94

[email protected] · October 28th 15, 06:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Peter Smyth)
wrote:

wrote:

While I was at Liverpool St on Tuesday I was concerned not to enter
the tube before 9:30 so as not to be charged peak fares.

So I sought out a staff member near the ticket machines (the ticket
office closed 19th October) to find out how I could be sure that the
gates thought it was 9:30 before I touched in. They don't display the
time which would answer my question. The one staff member supposedly
helping passengers could only advise me to use my watch.

I'm not sure how a ticket office would have been any more help with
your query?

In practice the gates go to off-peak mode at 0928 or so if your watch
says 0930 you are safe unless your watch is very unreliable.

Thanks. I would have expected well trained staff to have told me something
like that. It's a pity that gate displays just don't show the time.

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Colin Rosenstiel