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BR Station Hours to be slashed.
Hornsey Journal
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/nudplt">story</a>
15 hours less manned per week.
I dread to think how bad it would be unless Ms Featherstone had fought this(?) . Hours of opening getting chopped. Not that the guy in there has ever been much use at announcing late runnings or cancellations.
The penalty fare bods will have a field day - you ever tried queing at the ticket maching at Hgy on a Saturday? You need to be there about 10 mins before departure to work the bleeding thing.
As long as we can all use the "I'm Ken Livingstone" excuse...
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/n8dw6r">kendo fare dodge</a>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/nudplt">story</a>
15 hours less manned per week.
I dread to think how bad it would be unless Ms Featherstone had fought this(?) . Hours of opening getting chopped. Not that the guy in there has ever been much use at announcing late runnings or cancellations.
The penalty fare bods will have a field day - you ever tried queing at the ticket maching at Hgy on a Saturday? You need to be there about 10 mins before departure to work the bleeding thing.
As long as we can all use the "I'm Ken Livingstone" excuse...
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/n8dw6r">kendo fare dodge</a>
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"I appreciate your further comments and would like this opportunity to assure you that we have no plans to reduce the service that is offered by First Capital Connect, however we are proposing to do it differently. "
Service is clearly not equal to opening hours in their eyes.
Can't see any mention of for stations further out. Was sure I'd read somewhere Oyster expansion had been bumped til 2010.
I asked for a list of these stations, and apparently the extended service basically means (just one example):
Arlesey: 0645 - 1210 from what was 0650 - 1200 Monday to Friday,
0745 - 1310 from 0650 - 1200 Saturday. {{by my reckoning, 15 mins extra during the week, 5 more on a Saturday}}
"Genius" way of extracting more from your labour force as the staff will already be onsite at these times anyway and they can therefore claim extension to hours, whilst closing a couple of offices on Saturdays entirely elsewhere.
In compensation, for 8 weeks only, FCC have commited to ensuring staff are on hand to 'help customers use the ticket machines' . Presumably after 8 weeks the machines will have been vandalised anway so we won't need any help.
- renewing monthly & annual season tickets. The ticket guy at the moment will always ask you to come back on a Saturday to do so as it's much quieter and avoids holding panicky commuters up
- buying tickets when you already have a season ticket, eg if I want to go to Brighton for the day then I can get a ticket to cover the excess outside my season ticket (and save substantially on a full price, cross-London ticket). These are not available via machines or indeed in advance online.
My concerns are entirely selfish, unless the change in opening hours means he gets shafted into working split shifts in multiple different offices to make up the full complement of hours elsewhere...