Keep all Railway Ticket offices open and have no forced redundancies.

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

Keep all ticket offices open as they are an essential part of the railway. The railway needs to be accessible for all and closing ticket offices would stop that.

Ticket office closure would stop people with disabilities such as visual impairments, people who may have forms of Dyslexia being able buy a ticket. While working for a railway company myself in a Ticket office when asking any passengers if they want ticket offices 100% of them have said they need them and they'd really struggle without them. Also many elderly people struggle to use ticket machines and on York station as specially the machines regularly stop working and are very slow.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: Require train operators keep ticket offices and platform staff at train stations

Timeline

27 Jun 2023	Petition opened for signatures
3 Jul 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 3 Jul 2023

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