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James Shields · 24-04-2006, 11:43

I was on the 7:28 from Drogheda this morning, and there was a huge crowd waiting to pass the ticket checkers (edit: in Connolly). The few people heading the opposite way had to fight their way through the crowd. If we have a limited number of bi-directional gates, it's hard to see how people can get in at all.

The LU is a good example of a similar system, and it works well, but they have lots of gates, and at any given time each gate only operates in one direction, with the number of gates varying at different times of day according to the number of people entering and leaving the station (though you'll always need more exit gates, as people arrive at the station in dribs and drabs, but everyong getting off a train leaves together).

I know space is a problem in many stations (including the city centre ones), but IE need to either find enough space to make exit validation workable, or move to an open system like Luas.

24-04-2006, 11:43	#22
James Shields Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Drogheda, Ireland Posts: 1,275	I was on the 7:28 from Drogheda this morning, and there was a huge crowd waiting to pass the ticket checkers (edit: in Connolly). The few people heading the opposite way had to fight their way through the crowd. If we have a limited number of bi-directional gates, it's hard to see how people can get in at all. The LU is a good example of a similar system, and it works well, but they have lots of gates, and at any given time each gate only operates in one direction, with the number of gates varying at different times of day according to the number of people entering and leaving the station (though you'll always need more exit gates, as people arrive at the station in dribs and drabs, but everyong getting off a train leaves together). I know space is a problem in many stations (including the city centre ones), but IE need to either find enough space to make exit validation workable, or move to an open system like Luas. Last edited by James Shields : 24-04-2006 at 11:53.