work. And secondly, after you've taken the ticket, or touched an
oyster, the gate waits half a second before opening. I used to reguarly
walk into them! Now I conciously wait for the damn thing. Gates should

The new gates are very slow at all locations. AIUI the old gates were air
operated but after station refurbishment these are replaced by the slower
electric ones.

In quiet station times you can easily validate and get to the gates before
they've even started to move. The card reading process is really quick, you
can place and remove the card quite quickly but the return signal and
movement of the paddles is abysmal. It's a fare dodgers paradise, I've no
idea why they didn't pick up on this when they were testing or stop the
rollout of the damn things until it was improved.

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