Its plainly obvious that there is more than 1 of you. Just a quick visit to
somewhere like Kings Cross and you can see lots of you helping people at the
gates.

As for the one liner...i confess it was a silly attempt at humour and i
unreservedly apologise if i've upset you or in fact any other person
involved in the ticketing area. It was not my intention to do so.

Ok..lets be friends....what station do you work at, perhaps I could say
hello as I go through on my way to work.

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:53:26 GMT, "Malcolm & Nika"
wrote:

[SNIP]


I see....so you're the one.....

sorry but you'll need to explain the one liner.

And if you seriously imagine that only one person is involved in LU
ticketing then think again.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

"Richard J." wrote in message .uk...
Malcolm & Nika wrote:
"Kevin" wrote in message
m...

So is the coding on a paper ticket not smart enough to establish
that a journey is made across zone 1. It seems pretty
fundemental to me. If you buy a zone 2 ticket at say Chalk Farm
then travel to Vauxhall then you must have crossed zone 1.

Chalk Farm - Camden Town (Northern)
Camden Town - Kentish Town (Northern)
Kentish Town - West Hampstead (Silverlink)
West Hampstead - Richmond (Silverlink)
Richmond - Vauxhall (SWT)
-- all in zones 2/3/4. Or via Willesden Jn - Clapham Jn in zones 2/3.

The gates have only been around for about 15 years, couldn't
that check have been part of the programme or am I missing
something here. Do the gates only check the validity of the
date and that the exit zone matches the zone on the ticket.

The program can't establish that the journey includes zone 1, so they
let you through. Some people do take longer journeys in order to avoid
zone 1.

Yes Kevin...thats about it. Remember its a private company that
runs the ticket system and it was a cast off from another place....

I don't know what your point is. Which company was "cast off" from which
other place? The fact that LU contracted out the ticketing system isn't
relevant, as LU should have specified the ticketing rules.

It has no idea you went through Z1. So it opens the gates in a
Z2...regardless of where it is.

Well, at least I agree with that!

Another Monday morning and as regular as clockwork they were checking
tickets at Vauxhall. What surprises is me is that with half of London
knowing that Monday is ticket check day at Vauxhall that they still
catch people. I did suggest to the guy that checked my ticket that
they might want to vary the day from time to time then they would
catch more people.

Kevin

Another Monday morning and as regular as clockwork they were checking
tickets at Vauxhall. What surprises is me is that with half of London
knowing that Monday is ticket check day at Vauxhall that they still
catch people. I did suggest to the guy that checked my ticket that
they might want to vary the day from time to time then they would
catch more people.


Surely they were catching commuters... most of whom work on a Monday
as well as the rest of the week... so if they have a weekly or longer
travelcard then varying the day isn't going to make much difference
because they stil work on a Monday