I’m on the train heading to the Berwick rally. I bought my ticket at the office in
#Newcastle
Central Station. We need to save our
#rail
ticket offices. They are an essential service for so many people.
#SaveTicketOffices
@MayorJD
Check this tweet by a visually impaired woman who tried to buy a ticket from a machine.
Wheelchair users would be equally affected, these badly thought through plans to close ticket offices take no account of people with disabilities.
So I thought I would try out how accessible ticket machines actually are! I only knew afterwards that I had missed part of the machine! really doesn’t make much difference, as it is still totally inaccessible!
#DisabledByTheRailway
@RMTunion
@RNIB
#blind
@RailDeliveryGrp
@MayorJD
The last list I saw, Newcastle was 'safe' but who knows...
Maybe because it links to Metro and therefore North Shields Ferry & Newcastle Airport that it got some 'Brownie Points'.
I think they should all stay open/everywhere.
@MayorJD
You need to make your pinned tweet contain a link to your gofund me. Also after every new tweet add the link to the go fund me as a short thread. It will help raise the remaining funds ✊
@MayorJD
They seem to think it’s modernising but as I’ve said on here before, the likes of Japan and Germany are miles ahead of us railway wise and they both still have ticket offices. It’s not modernising it’s an easy way to make job cuts and call it something else.
@MayorJD
Thank you. Staff at train station ticket offices charge the correct price, the new station machines do not, the immediate train departure ticket price is the highest priced ticket type they have, no explanation that you can buy the ticket for a later departure & use it.
@MayorJD
A railway station is a hazardous area. High speed trains run past. It's crazy not to be supervised. It's a totally Safety ignorance to get rid of personnel from rail stations.