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Advice to passengers using the future London Underground. (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
May 2014
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Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)1. I guess you had to be there.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)2. I can't even begin to relate to no ticket offices.
Its an age thing.
LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)3. Most of us on the UK forum have been there...
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
(36,227 posts)4. In the event of difficulty, please use the white courtesy phone ...
... to contact an operator in Bangladesh.