{"id":5884,"date":"2012-02-10T16:43:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2012-02-10T17:08:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:08:02","slug":"the-genius-design-of-the-outdoor-brixton-ritzy-ticket-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-genius-design-of-the-outdoor-brixton-ritzy-ticket-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The genius design of the outdoor Brixton Ritzy ticket queue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-ritzy-genius-design-1.jpg\" alt=\"The genius design of the Brixton Ritzy ticket office\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hey, Ritzy people!<\/p>\n<p>Why let people queue up inside where there&#8217;s loads of space and it&#8217;s nice and warm when you can force them to stand outside in the sub zero temperatures of deepest\u00a0February?!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-ritzy-genius-design.jpg\" alt=\"The genius design of the Brixton Ritzy ticket office\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the scene outside the Brixton Ritzy early evening on\u00a0Wednesday, when the\u00a0temperature in central Brixton\u00a0was -2C .<\/p>\n<p>Folks were shivering in the slow moving queue outside, while inside there was loads of space. And warmth.<\/p>\n<p>And if all that wasn&#8217;t stupid enough, let&#8217;s not forget their mad idea of making people line up in the same queue for both tickets and\u00a0refreshments &#8211; so you have to wait ages just to buy some popcorn\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever redesigned the Ritzy&#8217;s layout should be forced to run around Windrush Square in just their underpants until the queues go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Ritzy people! Why let people queue up inside where there&#8217;s loads of space and it&#8217;s nice and warm when you can force them to stand outside in the sub &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[1191,292],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-ritzy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-ritzy-genius-design-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1wU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}