Recent plans to modernise local Brixton tube station will be enforced by closing down all ticket offices from the 9th March.

Having already had to deal with the rejuvenation of the busy tube station’s escalators, locals have expressed some distress towards TFL’s latest plans, suggesting that it will merely increase the longevity of the many years of work that have been occurring in Brixton tube station.

Most recently, local passengers have had to deal with works spanning eight months on the tube station’s escalators which are scheduled to be finished by July.

Causing a general sense of fear in Brixton locals, in a message from TFL, the company made attempts to reassure the station’s users with the fact that “The station now has improved ticket machines, offering guidance in 17 languages, making paying for travel easier; staff will be on hand to show you how much more these machines can do”.

Whilst this latest adjustment to the station has evidently sparked much debate, one member of popular local community forum, urban75  member, Alastair Scott, stated, “For how long should people who are not willing to use technology be accommodated, expensively, in an increasingly automated age?”

With the introduction of contactless payment methods and the improvements made by TFL to tube station ticket offices, ticket offices are now viewed as a burden on the London Underground’s potential to provide fast and smooth travel. However, it will be a sorry sight for commuters who have problems that can’t be solved through the latest ticket machine when they will have to contact the London-based Oyster contact centre.

Unfortunately it seems that the chaos of Brixton tube will only be rising with suspensions to the Victoria line occurring from the 28th-29th of March and escalator repairs causing queues of up to 200 meters during rush hour.