Save Our Ticket Offices, 2023

Digital Illustration.

Greedy railway companies (owned by european companies whos countries railway systems are actually nationalised and in public ownership) have decided to cut staff and shut down ticket offices. This has already happened across Londons underground network where many ticket offices have been turned into Tiny Parks. Staff are usually nearby on the Tube, but across the whole of the UK’s rail network, stations vary in size. Ticket offices ensure all kinds of people can access the transport service, people who cant use the ticket machines, people with learning disabilities, people with no smart phones or internet access to pre-book, as well as Disabled people and the elderly. To close all ticket offices is a huge injustice and removes accessibility for people who want to travel independently, a right many take for granted. Why must already marginalised people have their worlds made even smaller and more difficult because greedy people want to squeeze as much money from a service as possible. Staff will be spread thinner and thus put in more dangerous and precarious positions just in order to do their job. Its generally cheaper to fly to another country in europe than it is to travel across the UK via train so a serious change needs to be made, but not by cutting jobs and much needed services.