Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
24 Hour service on Piccadilly & Victoria Lines at Weekends planned.
TfL is planning to run 24 hour services at the weekend on certain underground lines.
This is a welcome move and at last brings London into line with other European Capitals that already run 24h rail services. No starting date in the announcement tho'.
This will also certainly mean a cutback on parallel night bus routes at the weekends too.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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But they are closing ALL ticket offices...
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Which I think is logical. What percentage of passengers actually do need to buy tickets from the ticket office? I do think tho' that some offices should be kept open. Mainly at certain points in central London.
This doesn't of course mean that stations won't be staffed. the staff will just be doing other jobs.
I really do think the 24h weekend service is a positive step. London Underground service often starts ridiculously late on Sunday mornings.
In the city where I live, ticket offices were changed into newspaper & coffee outlets that also sell tickets. The staff trained in ticket details. Whether that will happen in London, I don't know.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Re the Night Tube, excellent news. Long overdue. Now all we need more locally is for Harringay's Green Lanes restaurants to have the option of opening 24hrs like they used to.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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A small point but if every single ticket office is closed how, when a crisis occurs down on the platform, will anyone be able to access the emergency services seeing as mobile phone signals are absent from the platforms. Just asking like... ..
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They'll still have platform staff, just nobody in ticket offices. I guess they always planned this at some stage. Gone are the Mondays of waiting for fifteen minutes to renew your weekly.
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There are help points on every platform. They wouldn't need their mobiles.
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I am in favour of the changes, but one thing must be remembered. The ticket office staff will, no doubt, be required to do more menial work and I'd imagine that after a certain period will certainly earn less.
Not much fun to learn just before Christmas and not much fun, if say, you've worked for ten years or more in that position. Ticket Office clerk was (at least in my days with LT) one of the better paid positions of underground station work.
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In your dreams.
Did the privatisation of London Buses create new jobs? Yes, plenty of much lower paid jobs with no social amenities. Jobs on which people can't live without being subsidised by the state.
Just what we need.
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A 24 hour tube may or may not be a good idea but to castigate trade unions for representing their members is no argument as that is exactly what they are supposed to do. I have no doubt that B. Johnson is spoiling for a fight, just as I have no doubt that if the wages of tube workers can be squeezed, their hours of work lengthened and their conditions eroded, all in the name of profit, then B. Johnson will very happy. I however, would not like to be the only one on duty at a station at 3.a.m when the clubs turn out, or stuck out at the end of the line with no back up during the early hours. If you want support for visiting tourists as well as the lost and the drunk through the night then it is necessary to keep a secure kiosk open at each station to deal with all of the problems that will ensue; the stations at night need to be really well staffed with a good level of pay, I'm not holding my breath though.
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