Finsbury Park station: update on my mini-campaign

An update on my mini-campaign to improve the Oyster machine situation at Finsbury Park Tube station: Transport for London has now given me a detailed response. Here’s what it says:

The Duty Station Manager is aware of this situation but extra or catching signage will not really address the issue. During the rush hour many of our customers are in a hurry and automatically go to the nearest Oyster reader.

In the interim we’ll make announcements to advise customers of readers and if feasible place an available member of staff in that area, advising customers that more validators are available.

On a positive note the Oyster readers will be removed and replaced with gates in the ticket hall area.

I’ve not heard any of the announcements or seen extra staff in the area yet; have you?