Quote:
Originally Posted by MOH
Aside from scammers, I've gone through a couple of times behind someone else, ticket in hand, because if I arrive in Tara St on a DART that's late and I'm trying to catch a bus, I don't have time to wait two seconds for the gate to shut, take my ticket, and open again. I'd be surprised is quite a few people don't do this regularly, even if they have valid tickets, so the estimate of scammer numbers might be overstated.
|
You don't have to wait for the gates to shut before putting your ticket in - if you insert your ticket as the person in front goes through, the gates stay open and let you through too (with no horrible choo-choo noise either). Just make sure the gates have opened for them or you'll be letting them through.
I saw something I didn't understand this evening in Connolly - a guy going through a machine put his ticket in, the gates opened, he went through, but as he did the machine made the choo-choo noise. I presume his ticket was valid or the gates wouldn't have opened, and there was nobody ahead or behind.