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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Fri May 9, 2014, 02:26 PM May 2014

Advice to passengers using the future London Underground.

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Advice to passengers using the future London Underground. (Original Post) dipsydoodle May 2014 OP

I guess you had to be there. Baitball Blogger May 2014 #1

I can't even begin to relate to no ticket offices. dipsydoodle May 2014 #2

Most of us on the UK forum have been there... LeftishBrit May 2014 #3

In the event of difficulty, please use the white courtesy phone ... eppur_se_muova May 2014 #4

Baitball Blogger

(46,705 posts)

1. I guess you had to be there.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2014, 02:30 PM

May 2014

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

2. I can't even begin to relate to no ticket offices.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #1)

Fri May 9, 2014, 02:37 PM

May 2014

Its an age thing.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

3. Most of us on the UK forum have been there...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #1)

Fri May 9, 2014, 03:35 PM

May 2014

Last edited Fri May 9, 2014, 04:57 PM - Edit history (1)

The London Underground functions close to the margins in many ways at the best of times. Any reduction in staff could make it nightmarishly impossible for anyone who is not reasonably well-off, totally able-bodied, and very geographically savvy/ familiar with London.

I am sick of the modern assumption in too many areas that 'efficiency' means reducing staff as much as possible. Apart from causing unemployment and casualization in the workforce, it leads to the complete opposite of efficiency for service users!

eppur_se_muova

(36,262 posts)

4. In the event of difficulty, please use the white courtesy phone ...

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Sat May 10, 2014, 01:50 AM

May 2014

... to contact an operator in Bangladesh.

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