I wanted to post to share honestly just my outrage over this watching Sky’s coverage this morning.
Andy Burnham was on talking about this issue. Pointed out how these closures will affect the disabled and make rail transport less accessible. Kay Burley’s response was simply to say the number of tickets bought through the ticket offices is only 12% of total sales.
I am just so fed up of coverage like this. Later on another guest pointed out that you can only buy certain kinds of tickets from these offices, often cheaper than fares available online, and the response again was just “why can’t you buy them from machines” and “well not many people buy them so it doesn’t really matter”.
How are we, as a humane and developed country, setting this kind of situation up, on such short notice (21 days consultation to close *all* ticket offices in England!!), and just *completely* not even ignoring but like not even *registering* the complaints from the minority of people who have accessibility issues on this? As if over 1 in 10 people just *do not matter whatsoever*. What the fuck has happened that this is just how we do things now? If you’re not part of the majority basically go fuck yourself seems to be the British attitude these days. I do not recognize it at all and frankly I find it quite upsetting that this is now just the default for so many on so many issues.
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I wanted to post to share honestly just my outrage over this watching Sky’s coverage this morning.
Andy Burnham was on talking about this issue. Pointed out how these closures will affect the disabled and make rail transport less accessible. Kay Burley’s response was simply to say the number of tickets bought through the ticket offices is only 12% of total sales.
I am just so fed up of coverage like this. Later on another guest pointed out that you can only buy certain kinds of tickets from these offices, often cheaper than fares available online, and the response again was just “why can’t you buy them from machines” and “well not many people buy them so it doesn’t really matter”.
How are we, as a humane and developed country, setting this kind of situation up, on such short notice (21 days consultation to close *all* ticket offices in England!!), and just *completely* not even ignoring but like not even *registering* the complaints from the minority of people who have accessibility issues on this? As if over 1 in 10 people just *do not matter whatsoever*. What the fuck has happened that this is just how we do things now? If you’re not part of the majority basically go fuck yourself seems to be the British attitude these days. I do not recognize it at all and frankly I find it quite upsetting that this is now just the default for so many on so many issues.