"ticket gate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the term when you are talking about a barrier or entrance that is monitored by personnel who check tickets before allowing someone to pass. For example, "Once I reached the ticket gate, I showed my ticket and was allowed entry to the park."
Bar code scanners at the ticket gate validate the ticket.
He ended up in line at a ticket gate behind a dishevelled man who turned out to be Silver.
At a track near his home, he would sneak into races by lying on the running board of a car as it passed through the ticket gate.
Most had come through a ticket gate staffed by elderly men in cowboy hats, where a sign read NO GANG CLOTHING OR SYMBOLS PERMITTED.
"If you make your bed, you've got to lie in it," he said, looking out onto a long line of passengers at United's ticket gate.
Phones with built-in smartcard chips would allow users to pay for purchases at convenience stores or let holders pass a card-reading railway ticket gate by holding out their handset.
Ticket gates at transport hubs in the capital may be left open to reduce congestion.
Tickets to the end of the line, Takao-san Guchi Station, cost 370 yen (about $3.10 at 124 yen to the U.S. dollar) and can be bought near the ticket gates.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board voted last week to take the first step toward installing 275 ticket gates on the entire 17.4-mile subway and at many light-rail stations.
It would increase services, apply any fares freeze to devolved routes, refurbish stations, install more ticket gates and staff stations all day, ministers were told.
The organisation wants the journey time to the Essex airport to be cut by 17 minutes to half-an-hour, and calls for the ticket gates recently installed at Gatwick's station to be removed.
