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Robin May · August 1st 03, 03:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london

(Mait001) wrote the following in:

The situation in a tube station is entirely different. Your
analogy of queue jumping by inserting a travelcard into a barrier
machine is false, since the comparable "queue" here would be the
queue at the ticket barrier, not the queue at the ticket machine,
and, of course, I would not jump in front of someone else if there
was a queue (as there often is) at the ticket barrier.

No, the queue at the ticket barrier is not the equivalent queue. The
equivalent queue is the one where people are buying tickets (the one
which you would be a part of). The people with tickets who want to get
past you and on to the bus are equivalent to the people going through
the ticket barriers while you are buying your tickets. They've got into
the station before you while you were buying your ticket and so will
get to the platform before you and possibly to the train before you.

Put it this way: in both situations you have people with tickets and
people without tickets. In one situation the people with tickets are
not held up by those without as they queue to buy them, yet in the
other situation you demand that they are held up by those buying their
tickets.

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