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

[ajwright@spam.ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)]

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.


When did the tiket bariers start to become nototiously unreliable?
Only problems I have ever seen with them are people with the wrong
ticket. Slow exit is caused by the same people and those who don't get
their ticket ready until they are standing at the gate!
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