The Anonymous Widower

The Closing Of Underground Ticket Offices

The unions will have a field year of disruption over the closure of all ticket offices on the Underground, as is reported here in the Standard.

But the Underground must move on, and another story in the paper is more important, which reports that London tourism will be worth £77billion by 2025. This is a rise of over £30billion from today’s figure.

Many of these tourists will require help in the Underground, so those staff displaced from the closed ticket offices, will be needed in the stations and on the platforms.

I think the unions have a choice here; create some of biggest strikes we’ve ever seen or negotiate proper conditions for staff working overnight and outside of the ticket offices.

November 21, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | London Underground, Ticketing, Tourism