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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Another step along the road to a demanned tube. Then no union can hold the public to ransome. Apart from the politics are many people actually buying tickets from ticket offices?
Most people I see are using the machines. Same goes for my local railway.
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On my occasional visits to London I see vast numbers of people going through tube stations and only tiny numbers of them using the staffed windows.
TBH the unions have been their own worst enemy on the Tube. If they are responsible for forcing up the operating costs due to strike disruption or unreasonable wage demands, then they become part of the economic case for automation.