I agree entirely and am not against action to prevent fare evasion (my Goldcard costs enough without subsidisng others) but feel that just three gates at a station that I read in another thread on here is 111th busiest on the entire rail network is either a joke or an accident waiting to happen.
If they adopt a two in one out configuration in the morning rush and vice versa in the evening how many people will have to pile up in the queue in the car park or on platform 1 before it is deemed dangerous?
Install gates by all means but ideally do so on both sides of the track and as a minimum make the provision adequate for the number of people travelling.
A cynic has just suggested to me that this is a covert method of reducing overcrowding on the trains by keeping the crowds at the barriers!