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Post by Frenzie on Aug 9, 2019 18:48:58 GMT
It does feel like overkill when on some routes you have announcements to change for other buses at frequent stops, something I've noticed on the 9 and 171. I've noticed lots of passengers looking irritated at the long announcements at some stops. On the 171, you have quite a few change here announcements just between Camberwell and the Elephant whilst on the 9 as you travel down Kensington High Street you get change here announcements at what feels like every other stop I think some drivers turn them off on the N9. A lot of buses running up and down with blank ibus screens and no announcements.
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Post by rif153 on Aug 9, 2019 22:09:47 GMT
It does feel like overkill when on some routes you have announcements to change for other buses at frequent stops, something I've noticed on the 9 and 171. I've noticed lots of passengers looking irritated at the long announcements at some stops. On the 171, you have quite a few change here announcements just between Camberwell and the Elephant whilst on the 9 as you travel down Kensington High Street you get change here announcements at what feels like every other stop I think some drivers turn them off on the N9. A lot of buses running up and down with blank ibus screens and no announcements. What's also strange is that the announcements you get on the 9 between Kensington and Hammersmith don't seem to be on the 23 which is odd
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Post by george on Aug 9, 2019 22:13:11 GMT
I think some drivers turn them off on the N9. A lot of buses running up and down with blank ibus screens and no announcements. What's also strange is that the announcements you get on the 9 between Kensington and Hammersmith don't seem to be on the 23 which is odd I believe it's only on routes affected by the recent central london changes.
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Post by george on Aug 14, 2019 22:45:15 GMT
Ok this may sound ridicolous but how about having a tube status update on the ibus. It would be great for when you are just about to get off knowing the tube is down. To give an example a 27 approaches Paddington "hammersmith and city line is part suspended between edgware road and Hammersmith" for anyone who was going to get off would now stay on the bus. What do you think?
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Post by Pilot on Aug 15, 2019 8:46:18 GMT
Ok this may sound ridicolous but how about having a tube status update on the ibus. It would be great for when you are just about to get off knowing the tube is down. To give an example a 27 approaches Paddington "hammersmith and city line is part suspended between edgware road and Hammersmith" for anyone who was going to get off would now stay on the bus. What do you think? Yeah but they want drivers to do that over PA nowdays.
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Post by busaholic on Aug 15, 2019 13:11:47 GMT
Ok this may sound ridicolous but how about having a tube status update on the ibus. It would be great for when you are just about to get off knowing the tube is down. To give an example a 27 approaches Paddington "hammersmith and city line is part suspended between edgware road and Hammersmith" for anyone who was going to get off would now stay on the bus. What do you think? Can you have too much information? Some would say no, even never, but I wouldn't necessarily agree. Information overload is a facet of modern life, and could almost literally drive you mad, or in a permanent state of hyperstress, if you allowed it to e.g. who reads the pages of densely typed guff before signing their name to what should be a trivial transaction or agreement? Life is too short, something at my age you grow acutely aware of. Yes, it's a very nice idea, of course, that you had that information as your bus approached Paddington, but would you be the only one for whom it was relevant? What if there'd also been a points failure on the Bakerloo? How many announcements could be made, and how many would be listening? The sceptic in me would also say that totally irrelevant information would get spewed out - no trains between Gants Hill and Hainault on your 27 for instance! Then, of course, there'd be the time you left a 27 at Padd and went over to the H&C to find it had been suspended for an hour or more, yet no announcement had played on your bus - hit and miss, in other words. So, nice idea but a no-no in my book. Anyway, TfL would say 'look on your smartphone'
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Post by george on Aug 15, 2019 14:20:48 GMT
Ok this may sound ridicolous but how about having a tube status update on the ibus. It would be great for when you are just about to get off knowing the tube is down. To give an example a 27 approaches Paddington "hammersmith and city line is part suspended between edgware road and Hammersmith" for anyone who was going to get off would now stay on the bus. What do you think? Can you have too much information? Some would say no, even never, but I wouldn't necessarily agree. Information overload is a facet of modern life, and could almost literally drive you mad, or in a permanent state of hyperstress, if you allowed it to e.g. who reads the pages of densely typed guff before signing their name to what should be a trivial transaction or agreement? Life is too short, something at my age you grow acutely aware of. Yes, it's a very nice idea, of course, that you had that information as your bus approached Paddington, but would you be the only one for whom it was relevant? What if there'd also been a points failure on the Bakerloo? How many announcements could be made, and how many would be listening? The sceptic in me would also say that totally irrelevant information would get spewed out - no trains between Gants Hill and Hainault on your 27 for instance! Then, of course, there'd be the time you left a 27 at Padd and went over to the H&C to find it had been suspended for an hour or more, yet no announcement had played on your bus - hit and miss, in other words. So, nice idea but a no-no in my book. Anyway, TfL would say 'look on your smartphone' Interesting points made, I do agree that you can have too much Information but I feel that having a tube status update is more relevant than having a message telling passengers which routes they can change for at a bus stop, no one has ever got on a bus guessing that maybe they could change for the route they wanted so those messages are pointless IMO. The message would only play for when you are near the station so for the 27 it would be played at Baker street and Paddington. Only messages would play for tube lines relevant to that route. Of course people have smart phones but batteries on the phones today can be terrible.
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Post by rif153 on Aug 16, 2019 13:21:12 GMT
Can you have too much information? Some would say no, even never, but I wouldn't necessarily agree. Information overload is a facet of modern life, and could almost literally drive you mad, or in a permanent state of hyperstress, if you allowed it to e.g. who reads the pages of densely typed guff before signing their name to what should be a trivial transaction or agreement? Life is too short, something at my age you grow acutely aware of. Yes, it's a very nice idea, of course, that you had that information as your bus approached Paddington, but would you be the only one for whom it was relevant? What if there'd also been a points failure on the Bakerloo? How many announcements could be made, and how many would be listening? The sceptic in me would also say that totally irrelevant information would get spewed out - no trains between Gants Hill and Hainault on your 27 for instance! Then, of course, there'd be the time you left a 27 at Padd and went over to the H&C to find it had been suspended for an hour or more, yet no announcement had played on your bus - hit and miss, in other words. So, nice idea but a no-no in my book. Anyway, TfL would say 'look on your smartphone' Interesting points made, I do agree that you can have too much Information but I feel that having a tube status update is more relevant than having a message telling passengers which routes they can change for at a bus stop, no one has ever got on a bus guessing that maybe they could change for the route they wanted so those messages are pointless IMO. The message would only play for when you are near the station so for the 27 it would be played at Baker street and Paddington. Only messages would play for tube lines relevant to that route. Of course people have smart phones but batteries on the phones today can be terrible. A tube status update is an excellent idea, the issue is many passengers will ignore the announcements making them uselsss. I know I'd love for tube status updates on buses, if they can announce station closures, then tube status updates shouldn't be much of a stretch
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