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

[Jeff Lockwood <satan@ihug.com.au>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, 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.
> 

I've seen that happen quite a few times at Central station.
> 
> 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!

They don't last forever. Might be time to replace them. Some of those
barriers are 20 years old.


Jeff Lockwood <satan@ihug.com.au>

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