Campaigners rally to save railway ticket offices from closure – Unions fear ticket offices are set to close with the loss of thousands of jobs

5 comments

1. Everybody wants to reduce costs and increase benefits. Anything new under the sun? Of course not.

2. Only 15% of people say they buy their ticket at a ticket office

   https://yougov.co.uk/topics/transport/survey-results/daily/2022/06/22/e91fd/2

   Ticket offices should either be massively scaled back or eliminated entirely – they aren’t an efficient use of public funds.

   And they don’t exist purely to keep jobs around just for the sake of having jobs either.

3. [Won’t someone please just think of the share holders!!](https://melmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/361343.jpg)

4. Thing is, they closed the ticket office at chesham (end of the met line) with this exact argument and it’s a complete pain now if there’s any sort of problem because they were the only staff

5. Stick a fiver on to the ticket price if bought from an office