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Old July 13th 07, 06:43 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Proposed ticket office closures on the tube

I looked back a couple of weeks and didn't see a thread about this, so
thought I'd start one. LUL are planning to cut ticket office opening
hours (again), suggesting that its because more people are using
Oyster. Whatever you think of the reason, hey here's a list of
proposed closures.

TOTAL CLOSURES: Barkingside, Becontree, Boston Manor, Buckhurst Hill,
Cannon Street, Canons Park, Chesham, Chiswick Park, Chorleywood,
Croxley, Debden, East Putney, Fairlop, Hornchurch, Goldhawk road,
Ickenham, Latimer Road, Mansion House, Mill Hill East, Moor Park,
North Ealing, North Harrow, Northwood Hills, Park Royal, Perivale,
Ravenscourt Park, Regents Park, Royal Oak, Ruislip, Ruislip Gardens,
South Ruislip, Sudbury Hill, Temple, Totteridge & Whetstone, Upney,
West Acton, West Finchley, West Harrow, West Ruislip, Wimbledon Park,
Canary Wharf (East), Seven Sisters (B), Southwark (West), Oxford
circus (Argyll Street), Waterlook (International).

WEEKEND CLOSURES: Bow Road, Bromley-by-Bow, Chalfont & Latimer,
Dagenham East, Elm Park, Goodge Street, Hainault, Mornington Crescent,
South Harrow, Sudbury Town, Wanstead, Westbourne Park.

SUNDAY CLOSURES: Alperton, Baker Street (Met), Barbican, Dagenham
Heathway, Eastcote, Euston Square, Great Portland Street, Hillingdon,
Northwick Park, Northwood, Pinner, Rickmansworth, Ruislip Manor,
Shepherds Bush (H&C), Watford.

SATURDAY CLOSURES: Moorgate (man), Waterlook (Shell).

WEEKDAY CLOSURES: Bow Road 10am to 4pm, Dollis HIll 1.30 to 4pm,
Epping 4 to 7pm, High Barnet 1.30 to 4pm, Kennington 2 to 4.30pm,
Lambeth North 2.30 to 4.30 pm, Loughton 12 to 3pm, Mornington Crescent
11am to 4.30pm, South Woodford 1.30 to 4.30pm, Tufnell Park 2 to 5pm,
Warwick Avenue 2 to 5pm, Waterloo (Shell) 10am to 2pm, Woodford 1.30
to 4.30pm.

AFTERNOON CLOSURES: Cockfosters, Dagenham East, Hainault, Hillingdon,
Northwood, Pinner, Redbridge, Rickmansworth, Ruislip Manor,
Snaresbrook, South Harrow, Wanstead, Watford, Westbourne Park,
Woodside Park.

You'll know how busy your own local ticket office gets, and how this
may affect you, so its up to your judgement what you wanna do about
it, but here's some places to send your views.

Write to your MP c/o House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.
Write to Ken Livingstone c/o City Hall, The Queens Walk, London SE1
2AA.
Sign the online petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/tubetickets/.
Contact the RMT about their campaign to be kept up to date of what
they're doing about it... c/o Unity House, 39 Charlton Street, London,
NW1 1JD.

Thats the info as I've seen it published. All I can see is that
closures will leave Oyster users (who do have problems from *time to
time*) with no direct port of call to resolve problems... and then
there's the people who DON'T have Oysters, who will be left to fend
for themselves. I'm not going to try and start a political debate
here, just providing information for you to do as you wish.