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[email protected] · January 7th 11, 12:11 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:55:25 -0800 (PST)
MIG wrote:
But if the display was wrong, say, 10% of the time (not saying it
is), it would actually be 100% useless, wouldn't it?

Quite. If you have to check the destination indicators on the train
anyway there's little point having the platform ones except for a
countdown until the next train.

Well, old fashioned they may be, but the Earl's Court ones are pretty
reliable IME. I don't think I've seen them wrong.

Don't shoot the messenger but in my experience, the general public
find those **very** difficult to interpret.

Quite possibly. I fully accept that I am not a member of the general
public in relation to them, having known them since I was in short
trousers.

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Colin Rosenstiel