Megaton327
Senior Member
In terms of the new Presto fare gates I had an interesting thought, why don't they remain open at all times like in Japan (they have this transit thing figured out pretty well XD), that way the gate only closes if a car isn't tapped and someone tries to walk through. The new gates have a awkward delay which means you can't continue to walk straight through when you tap this would fix that and seriously improve the flow at rush hour.
Logically, if they have a delay opening, there would likely be one closing as well. I have heard people complain that the IR-sensor-triggered opening for passengers exiting is also considered a bit laggy, so someone could be mostly through the gate and just get scraped by it as it closes. And the delay will be identical to that of entering once tap-out is required.
Personally, I've said this many times, but I really don't find there to be any significant delay either on tapping in or walking out. With the old turnstiles, you have to slow down a bit to go through them, I think a lot of people are conveniently forgetting that--with the faregates, if you're walking fast towards them and don't break stride, yeah, you have to stop because it seems like it's delayed, but realistically you can traverse a faregate faster than a turnstile, not to mention if you have baggage on you.