James Farrar wrote:

On 30 Jul 2006 16:10:07 -0700, "Jonathan Morris"
wrote:

Also, I hate to repeat myself because I got slaughtered last time, but
the gates are slow and fail regularly. In the end, staff will often
open them up to clear the queues in both directions. For such new
equipment, their acceptance level of paper tickets and oyster cards is
terrible. The only advantage is the increased number of gates that can
be fitted in, but the lack of speed must more than cancel this benefit
out. I live in hope that a few subtle changes can fix these issues, and
will be carried out in due course.

I don't know about the failure rate, but I have to agree about the
speed. On previous gates,you can touch your Oysteron the target and
walk through without breaking stride. You can't on these, unless ypu
walk very slowly.


I like the older gates that whack open and shut - there's no waiting
about with those at all! Of course at rush hour you then end up with
everyone concertina-ing into the person in front of them when the
person who's at the gates has a problem with their ticket and can't get
them to open, but I find that quite amusing anyway!