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Post by compsci on Apr 15, 2007 16:22:14 GMT
What happens if you wish to buy a ticket which is cheaper than a cash single to your first destination which isn't sold by the machines when there is no ticket office open? Can the balance over the ticket you actually wanted be refunded?
I'm thinking of the discounted Z1-D travelcard which can be purchased with a railcard, which is a bargain at £4.80. If you were travelling to Zone 1 from another zone, the cheapest ticket which you could get from a machine would be more than this.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2007 16:56:29 GMT
i hope thave got rid of that awful eighties tilling in the ticket hall
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2007 20:30:41 GMT
AAAAARGH! It's slightly freaky seeing the platforms with no cage to keep the P-way people in! I nearly dropped the handle on the way through due to surprise. Apparently it's all been taken away because somebody managed to drop a bit of a clanger the other day. Whoops! I have to say it looks much nicer without all the gubbins around. Might even open in June.  |
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Post by greatplum on Apr 30, 2007 14:17:25 GMT
It might even open on time - you never know Gappe...
Well, I'll be going past it again this evening...
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2007 14:04:13 GMT
Care to make a bet on that? ;-)
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Post by greatplum on May 1, 2007 17:14:50 GMT
Ha, upon me going past Regent's Park every evening? I have noticed that the opening date is 'the end of June' whatever that means! |
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Post by Chris M on May 1, 2007 19:30:50 GMT
The June 2006 pocket map gives the closure dates as "June 2006 to July 2007", but the January 2007 version says "Regent's Park station is closed. For closure dates see station publicity or use contact details shown."
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2007 21:52:42 GMT
Well I meant a bet on when it opens.
But having just checked out the traffic circular it's changed from 'Closed til end of June' to 'Closed until further notice'.
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Post by johnnychx on May 26, 2007 22:39:14 GMT
I was having a chat and a drink with a couple of the rostered supervisors from Regents Park yesterday and they seem to think it is a matter of "a few weeks"
Although whether they know any more than anyone else is moot, they have apparently been in conference with the powers that be on the subject.
Mid June seems to be their opinion.
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Post by c5 on Jun 9, 2007 18:17:07 GMT
I have just been reading this from www.workersliberty.orgLooks like all has gone well! Regent's Park Refurb Submitted on 9 June, 2007 - 16:20 :: Projects and refurbs Tubeworker has reported previously that the Regent's Park refurb included the physical bricking-up of the Ticket Office. It seems that this is not the only problem with it. The planned training schedule had to be scrapped after inspections by safety reps found the site to be unsuitable for training. Then when training did go ahead, it had to be abandoned due to noise and hazards caused by the ongoing work. And station staff across the system will know how unreliable the old Regent's Park lifts were - we were forever heearing BBMS announcements about the station closing because they had failed again. Are the new lifts any better? The fact that the trainer and trainees had to be rescued from them when they stalled during training does not bode well! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2007 20:55:51 GMT
Well, it was due to open on Monday, not the TfL site says Tuesday!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 10:23:15 GMT
Indeed, at midday on Tuesday Regents Park should be open to the public.......
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 16:11:25 GMT
Let's wait and see. And also see how many T/Ops remember that it's open! |
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Post by Tom on Jun 10, 2007 18:23:22 GMT
Please forget - It'll keep the SPAD figures on the SB Home down!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 19:59:23 GMT
have the lifts been completley replaced
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Post by compsci on Jun 10, 2007 20:15:10 GMT
A member of staff told me that the station would be open on Tuesday as I was admiring the new tiles. They look completely identical to the old ones, except that they are brighter and have no broken bits. You would hardly know that anything had happened apart from the general freshness. Metronet seem to have learned that white, white and more white does not make them popular.
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Post by johnnychx on Jun 13, 2007 2:44:35 GMT
So they were supposed to open today but we have posters in the stations saying there are still a couple of things not finished and that the public will be informed as soon as there is news.
I heard a whisper today that metronet might be about to go under...
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Post by cetacean on Jun 13, 2007 9:17:17 GMT
There was a story on the local BBC news last night about their banks cutting off new borrowing. They mentioned that Regent's Park didnt open because Metronet hasn't sorted the paperwork with the fire brigade yet (ie incompetence, not lack of money).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 17:00:29 GMT
the ppp was an awful idea from the start bring LU management back again things seemed
to happen much quicker like i never heard of 'late eginering works' or station refurbishing
schemes never costed much money so metronet are to blame realy
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Post by c5 on Jun 13, 2007 17:18:37 GMT
Re-opened at 17.20ish. Now when is the first closure due to defective lifts going to be! ;D ;D ;D Can we have a poll! ;D ;D ;D ;D Gonna say Thursday 9.20! |
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Post by c5 on Jun 13, 2007 17:28:06 GMT
the ppp was an awful idea from the start bring LU management back again things seemed to happen much quicker like i never heard of 'late eginering works' or station refurbishing schemes never costed much money so metronet are to blame realy The PPP was to give long term financial investment stability, so that instead of one year LUL recieving a £100 million grant from the Government and the next only £40m. This means that the line upgrades could be done as there would be a steady flow over a number of years, rather than what happened in the past, which was plan, say a computer signalling centre to take over an entire line, but in the end they only take a 1/4 of it with the Signal Boxes still doing the rest! The PPP, along with the various PFI projects (Power/Prestige(Ticketing)/Connect/Northern Line Trains) were all farmed off this way to keep the borrowing off the Governments balance sheets! Personally I reckon that the job is a lot harder than the Infraco reckoned it would be, trying to upgrade the assetss, keep the existing ones working and the railway running! Oh, and don't just pick on Metromess- Tube Lines are just as bad, but better at sucking up to Ken, and "probably" make an absolute fortune from the ERU, Distribution and TransPlant divisons.... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 19:40:15 GMT
Passed through there at about 16.00 today [13/06/07]... North end of SB platform was still being tiled! Announcements were playing non stop... Saw a Metronet bloke with HOUSEKEEPING OFFICER on his hi-vi... Oh yeah?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 21:14:17 GMT
is anybody surprised?! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 21:36:45 GMT
I was very surprised, at Metronet's own 'Housekeeping' Officer!!!
Looked just like Blakey from On The Buses, standing there with his clipboard!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2007 0:02:07 GMT
the ppp was an awful idea from the start bring LU management back again things seemed to happen much quicker like i never heard of 'late eginering works' or station refurbishing schemes never costed much money so metronet are to blame realy You still need to work on your spelling ;-) Have you maybe thought that there are more engineering work overruns because there is more engineering work going on under PPP? |
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Post by johnnychx on Jun 14, 2007 1:43:33 GMT
Yes. So they reopened at about 17.15 today - apparently the delay was about the fire plans not not being filed.
Us operational staff didn't get our CSS bonuses because of these clowns.
Ah well.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2007 3:26:36 GMT
Re-opened at 17.20ish. Now when is the first closure due to defective lifts going to be! ;D ;D ;D Can we have a poll! ;D ;D ;D ;D Gonna say Thursday 9.20! And maybe another poll on when and how often it's going to be accidentally nonstopped by forgetful drivers. *wanders off muttering 'stop at Regent's Park, stop at Regent's Park, stop at Regent's Park, stop at Regent's Park, stop at Regent's Park.....' |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2007 15:14:59 GMT
Just got off at the station to have a look around. The thing is, I've neve been there before, but it looked like a pretty nice - but not exactly a very special station. Since I haven't heard Tfl announce anything yet so far, I was surprised that there were quite a few people getting on and off.
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Post by Tubeboy on Jun 16, 2007 9:11:41 GMT
It is currently closed due to a faulty lift! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2007 9:48:49 GMT
I was very surprised, at Metronet's own 'Housekeeping' Officer!!! Looked just like Blakey from On The Buses, standing there with his clipboard! i saw the same bloke there when i was at a red signal it looked like he was telling off the staff and probably saying some thing like i 'ate you metronet" ;D ;D ;D |
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