One reader worries that the shortage of ticket workplace employees heralds a lift in anti-social and felony behaviour on our trains (Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Photographs)
What’s going to ticket workplace closures imply to you?
For some Metro readers, it’s been a very long time coming, whereas others are scared it’s going to go away commuters feeling extremely weak.
Then there’s the age outdated query of fare costs: with fewer staff to pay may it result in decreased ticket prices for the remainder of us?
Right here we share simply a few of their views – tell us what you assume.
‘Each week, I witness delinquent behaviour’
The demise of ticket workplaces at stations is a blow to inclusion and repair. However it is usually a daunting step additional towards an un-staffed transport system.
Each week, I witness first-hand delinquent behaviour, aggression, fare-evasion and property injury on the rail community.
There are nearly no enforcement employees – the few that stay are ‘income safety’ (typically working alone, at most danger to non-public threats and hurt).
At instances, an early morning or rush hour commute feels filthy, horrifying and lawless.
This must be an actual concern to everybody because it inevitably escalates. Operators and authorities should be made accountable for buyer and employees security.
Dave, Hove
A machine can’t remedy each difficulty
On this speak about railway operators wanting to shut ticket workplaces and making employees obtainable to assist folks on the concourse (Metro, Thu).
I wished to buy a Two Collectively Railcard and tried to make use of a self-service machine solely to be informed {that a} member of employees must difficulty it. I’m certain there are different examples of those situations. Holly, Essex
One reader says the recommendation of ticket workplace employees is invaluable on account of her incapacity (Image: Getty)
I’m disabled, mobility impaired, and in consequence can not journey simply and wish the help of all of the practice staff, together with ticket workplace employees.
Their recommendation about stations I can entry is invaluable.
And what concerning the blind, autistic, these with dementia and vacationers and many others who may want extra help? Sarah Chook, through e-mail
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‘Much less employees means cheaper rail fares’
Certainly the information that railway ticket workplaces closing comes as no shock to many, with statistics exhibiting they’re hardly getting used within the modern-day.
With the discount of employees wages, station overheads and different prices with these closures, I stay up for seeing the rail fares lower in consequence! Martin, Kent
Are the closures a response to strike motion?
With regard to those persevering with practice strikes, within the battle for extra pay, is it any marvel the practice corporations now suggest to shut all manned ticket workplaces to chop prices? Oh, the irony… Geoff Corridor, Croydon
No shock right here that practice operators are attempting to modernise and sustain with the instances and the unions need yet one more battle.
They’ve misplaced all credibility with their strike exercise over the previous three years, kicking the nation when it was down, desperately making an attempt to get well.
Now, if, or when, there’s a real cause to protest nobody takes them critically as a result of they’ve cried wolf too many instances.
They don’t mirror or symbolize the general public or common working folks, so cease taking part in that card as properly, please. David, North-West London
(Image: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket through Getty)
The issue with automation…
Fi Rosen talks about Britain’s march in the direction of a faceless, tech-driven dystopia of self-service supermarkets and no ticket workplaces, the place no one talks to one another any extra (MetroTalk, Thu).
I really feel for her and her inexplicable worry of recent expertise.
I ponder to myself what she would have fabricated from the invention of the motor automobile, or tv, or money machines?
I do marvel how she managed to ship her views in. A textual content off a cell phone or an e-mail off a pc, maybe? Paul, West Yorkshire
Individuals discuss to one another in social settings having conversations and real connection, not simply randomly commenting on the climate with the cashier for the transient two minutes they’re in entrance of you.
The larger fear for automation is what occurs when there aren’t sufficient jobs obtainable for folks? Aidan, Dartford
Are you frightened your job may very well be automated? (Image: Getty)
I discover it extraordinarily hypocritical when folks complain about banks closing however then help cashless companies.
Companies go cashless to keep away from having to cope with bodily cash, thus eliminating their want to make use of a department and save on the costs related to enterprise banking.
If you end up a sequence, the transactional cost on playing cards is minimal in comparison with the related prices of coping with money.
However supporting this and eliminating money will drive out impartial shops.
It should lose hundreds of jobs for folks in industries that cope with money, similar to courier corporations and financial institution branches, and it’ll make it simpler for each business to depend on self-service.
If you need a world the place you may cope with folks and never simply fixed machines, get up and cease supporting it by not utilizing money. George, Haywards Heath
It’s not at all times straightforward to parallel park (Image: Getty)
And at last… a reader shares their very own parking panic
I’ve large sympathy with Rachel Tompkins and creased up studying about her ‘parking panic’ (Metro, Wed) as I’ve been precisely there.
In my early 20s, I used to be making an attempt to do parallel parking on a busy one-way highway.
At first it was OK as a result of there was no visitors however then the lights modified and all of it constructed up.
This fireplace engine drew up alongside me they usually had been all laughing at me, so I crumbled with embarrassment.
I received out and requested a stranger to park for me, which he did.
It’s loopy, actually, as a result of it was my work van so had he bumped it I may simply have misplaced my job.
Fortunately, it was all good. Margaret, through e-mail