Re: Town Hall Stn (Syd) - Potential catastrophe?

[paulrw@xa2.com.au (paul)]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:36:10 GMT, ajwright@spam.ozemail.com.au (Ashley
Wright) wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:59:09 +1000, "Greg Cantori" <greg@mpx.com.au>
>wrote:
>
>
>>
>>One morning, around 08:25, no less than 5 fully crowded trains
>>arrive at the six Town Hall platforms simultaneously.
>>Thousands of passengers stream out and head up the stairs and
>>escalators to the exit level. Among these passengers are a hundred
>>or so tourists clutching their blue and white Kellogs K-Time tickets.
>>
>>Suddenly, several unrelated tourists lose their tickets in
>>the notoriously unreliable gates. Perhaps some tickets were
>>singles, or perhaps they were invalid - for whatever the reason,
>>there is now a growing delay for passengers trying to exit, and
>>the queues of people waiting their turn get longer alarmingly
>>quickly as buzzers sound and the orange gate lights flash.
>
>
Gate array staff are supposed to press F9 on the console in a
situation like this. This opens all gates.

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