On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:44:09 -0800 (PST), SamB
wrote:

For the most part the announcements are good, and helpful to find a
destination, and I'm all in favour of it. What bugs me is the "73
pause to pause Victoria" which is unnecessary (I wouldn't have got
on if I didn't think it was a 73, and neither would a partially
sighted person, surely), and also, shockingly badly done with the huge
pauses. If it was one flowing statement, then it would be far less
annoying.

If you wanted to benefit partially-sighted people, it might make sense
for a speaker to be fitted to the outside of the bus so they can hear
it before they board.

It's still far better than when someone presses the stop button, as
well as the bing and the Stopping sign lighting up, getting "BUS
stopping at NEXT bus stop, please stand well clear OF doors".
Completely superfluous, and sounds as if it's putting together the
statement from all the separate words in its system rather than having
one phrase.

And a piece of information, like the repetitive references to the
doors on the Tube, that is quite easily summed up in one sound -
"ding".

Neil

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