CharlesPottins wrote:
Last night I heard on the news that LU "no longer needs" so many staff, and
that people will no longer be needed in ticket offices or or on the barriers. I
suspect that either the news teams know this is crap, but don't care, or that
probably like some of the management, they don't use public transport very
often.

With no barrier staff on hand, they have to leave the barriers open.
This means all journeys between two unstaffed stations are free, and
all journeys from unmanned to manned stations cost only the minimum
fare, to the unscrupulous.

I wonder how many staff this lost revenue would pay for.

With no staff on trains or in stations, vandalism would get even
worse. Last I looked, if several hundred EXTRA staff could prevent
half the existing vandalism, there would be a net cost saving.

With no staff around, many passengers - the sort who pay - will be too
frightened to travel late at night.

I wonder how many staff this lost revenue would pay for.

Why are bean-counters so stupid?


Colin McKenzie


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The great advantage of not trusting statistics is that
it leaves you free to believe the damned lies instead!