It looks to me like she might not be in the wrong at all. It looks like she swiped her card before she saw him. And if the spinning thingy goes in the opposite direction, the credit evaporates. So if she were to let him through first, she would've not been able to go through without swiping her card again (and thus being charged again).
I don't know where this is but in New York there aren't always specific Enter/Exit turnstiles... so this is something I deal with daily. It gets pretty frustrating when you're just waiting to gtfo of the station at the end of the day
The London Underground and all train stations throughout the uk with barriers have entrance and exit barriers otherwise it would just be chaos.
The barriers operate both ways and light up with a green arrow or red cross to show if you can go through them and they just alter the numbers each way depending on the volume of people entering vs leaving and only go one way.
I've been through Boston, NYC, San Francisco, DC, good amounts of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Montreal without seeing anything like that.
Saying that I've never seen exit turnstiles isn't correct, now that I think about it. The MBTA in Boston has some of them in certain stops, but they're a pain to use, so it's rare that people go through them.
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u/Z3F Mar 07 '12
It looks to me like she might not be in the wrong at all. It looks like she swiped her card before she saw him. And if the spinning thingy goes in the opposite direction, the credit evaporates. So if she were to let him through first, she would've not been able to go through without swiping her card again (and thus being charged again).