Seeing red over ticket queues
I have recently returned to travelling to work in Paisley by train.
First of all, I want to say how good the service is to and from the town to Glasgow with trains galore at Gilmour Street station plus the Canal Street line.
But my main gripe is travelling at weekends and specifically from Glasgow Central.
I like to go to the football on a Saturday to see St Mirren.
However, I am constantly pulling my hair out at the amount of unnecessary queues at ticket offices.
It really is bad when you are in a hurry and someone in front asks about the service between Oban and Azerbaijan on a Tuesday with a special railcard.
So, I have come up with a solution that saves on time, stress and possibly bloodshed. Why not have a kind of dafties division? It would be a separate queue for questions and queries, then it would leave other windows free for simple purchase and collect transactions.
Recently at the Easter Holidays on the Friday before the break, Glasgow Central had just two people at the counter and one was clogged up with a hillwalking type of backpacker asking all sorts of questions without any concern for those of us queueing around that pen and towards the exit.
I actually missed my train to Gilmour Street because of this nonsense and was late going to the football.
Anyway, what about a separate queue for the time wasters, while the pay-on-the-day punters get a clear run at it. There. Solved. KC MacDonald
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What has become of the Paisley I grew up in?
It is fast becoming one of the most dangerous towns in Scotland.
The recent killings, combined with frequent assaults and the disgraceful behaviour of speeding motorists – as reported in the Paisley Daily Express – are all rendering the town a most precarious place in which to live.
Police resources are overstretched and they try their best with limited resources.
Politicians, national and local, need to urgently focus on making the town much safer for its residents than it currently is. Stephen McBride Ayrshire