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The people have spoken, and they want to speak to real live humans, not a rail ticket self-service app | Gaby Hinsliff (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well shit.... maybe the ones I went to didn't or I didn't see them 😂.

Still, my experience was that I needed to use a machine I had no idea what I was doing some helpful staff member came over saw I was having issues had a chat to me for a minute and I was sorted. Wasn't hard at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think there is room for both, infract I feel our train stations are woefully understaffed already. The reason there was someone to help you in Japan is they had enough staff to have a ticket office open, and to have people manning the ticket machines during busy times. Especially in the big stations. The current plans say they are to move staff to be "roaming" but it's clear the real plan is to remove all the staff they can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

For busy stations the cost of staff is miniscule, and they can help enough lost people as to be worth it . However for less busy stations having someone stand around doing nothing all day isn't useful.