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Tube barriers have the same problem, although it's not really environmental. Ever seen Canary Wharf station (jubilee line) at 6pm? Or almost any DLR station whe
by mayniac 8y ago
Tube barriers have the same problem, although it's not really environmental. Ever seen Canary Wharf station (jubilee line) at 6pm? Or almost any DLR station where there's only two or three oyster card readers for an entire station? I've heard of people being stuck outside the elevators of the jubilee branch for up to half an hour when the DLR is on strike.
Getting rid of the barriers would get people in and out of stations faster, reduce queues and get rid of a lot of redundant station jobs which only exist to get people through the barriers. Actually those last two points may get significant backlash from the British public and the public transport unions respectively..
- orf 8y agoGetting rid of the barriers removes the ability to control overcrowding on the platform itself, which at peak times with DLR strikes causes a big headache. You can't just let tens of thousands of people stream into an enclosed space like that without controls.
- lozenge 8y agoAt Canary Wharf and the ticket barriers and escalators are deliberately kept closed or are going in the "wrong" direction to prevent the platforms from being too full. This way there is room to get off the train even at 6pm when there are a thousand people waiting to get in the train.