On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:01:06 GMT,
Neil Williams wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:28 -0800 (PST),
wrote:
The ordinary gates will only let one person through at a time
Theoretically. I have inadvertently tailgated people through them
before (where the barriers have wrongly rejected my ticket but I was
moving quickly enough that I got through anyway).
Are you sure you didn't go through on the ticket of the person behind
you (leaving them stranded)? If people are going though quickly, the
barriers don't actually close. The person with the bad ticket will have
picked it back up just as the barrier closes and the person behind will
feed their ticket in. (My partner has been caught out twice in recent
months by this - it's particularly a problem at weekends where you've
got a mixture of regulars who feed their ticket in as fast as possible
and irregulars who don't quite know what they are doing - either that or
somehow people with dodgy tickets see my partner as an easy mark). On
the first time she was left "trainside" with no ticket, on the second
occasion she was using oyster so at least she still had her card.
Tim.
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