Fares and Ticketing

It's due to start next week, it puts us in danger, it makes us do higher-paid grades' work on the cheap, and its a threat to our jobs and our ever-decreasing promotion chances. What is it?

LU management trundles on with it various ways of tempting business away from ticket office windows. To spot the latest, look at TRU no.45 p.15.
NR Ticket Range Improved on POMs

London Underground continues to claim that its savage cuts in ticket office opening hours are 'driven by changes in customer behaviour'. Yet it also continues to drive those changes in customer behaviour itself, in an attempt to justify savage cuts in ticket office opening hours!

The company's latest ruse is to give the shop on the Liverpool Street station C gateline the right to top up Oyster. It's less than ten feet from the ticket office. And, of course, it would be allowed to top up Oyster for whatever amount the customer wants - no £5 minimum here!

As London Underground’s service is being dismantled, the travelling public are about to be asked to pay for the privilege.