On 17 Mar, 20:03, "Paul Scott" wrote:
wrote:
There is usually a space to pass luggage through in a manual gate -
you can put your luggage through there and then use the ticket gate to
exit yourself, picking your bag up from the other side of the space in
the manual gate.

Not any more. The installation at Waterloo has a fairly high proportion of
'wide gates'. There are no manual gates as such, they are all mag stripe
ticket or Oyster card operated.

Paul S

Yes, the introduction of wide gates is an improvement over the rather
lax loophole that is a manual gate.

Having said that, they may not always be quick enough to only let one
person through.

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:52:11 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Yes, the introduction of wide gates is an improvement over the rather
lax loophole that is a manual gate.

Having said that, they may not always be quick enough to only let one
person through.

Good. When I use the wide gates it is to get more than one person
through on one ticket. I don't think my 3 year old would like it
if the gates slammed shut on her or me.

David