On Mar 2, 10:38*pm, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:05:20 +0000, asdf
wrote:

They can't cope with someone carrying a large object though, because
they can't tell the difference between that and someone trying to
tailgate.

A bicycle won't really fit through the width of the gates. *Perhaps it
might be worth leaving your bicycle folded (as indeed I believe you're
meant to) and only unfolding on the other side?

But yes, as a regular user of Euston in the morning peak, the barriers
do slow down exit substantially, though when it gets silly the staff
often just open the lot. *The situation could perhaps be improved by
having one side of the barriers for in and one side for out, and being
careful in which platforms the trains are diagrammed into to avoid in
or out happening at both sides at once.


As far as I can tell they do. My common experience is to get off a
train in platform 10, with crowds heading for the train I've just
arrived on from the west side of the barriers, and I've got to fight
my way across to the east side of the barriers to get out. I bet
that's why so many people with barrierable tickets exit through the
luggage gate on the west.

However, if they reversed them, there would be the opposite problem if
I arrived at platform 9.

I think the best solution would be to have exit gates on both outsides
and entry gates in the middle. That way exiting people would never
have to cross the entering crowds right at the gates.