On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Michael Hoffman wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Paul Corfield wrote:

I think people are forgetting that the security situation and
assessment of risk to the tube network means that certain things
*have* to be said. You only need to look at the impact of security
alerts on the service just because people have left bags, boxes and
other items lying around. The fact people leave them behind warrants a
reminder!

If *and only if* those announcements are actually effective. The whole
point of the whinge is that because people hear them every five minutes
every day, they tune them out, and they have no effect. If this is
true, the announcements are a Bad Thing; if not, they're a Good Thing.
Until someone points us to a study which actually determines this,
we're all ****ing in the wind.

Don't know if there have been any specific studies about those
announcements. But it has long been axiomatic in human factor research
that too many warnings causes people to start ignoring the warnings.

Absolutely. But there's a quantitative question here - exactly what
frequency of announcement is optimal? That's why i want cold, hard data!

tom

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On Jul 10, 6:44 pm, MIG wrote:
On Jul 10, 6:18 pm, alex_t wrote:

Ah, the Jubilee - there is nothing better then constant announcements
that "This train terminates at Stratford" when ALL trains terminate at
Stratford. Same on the Northern line - "This train terminates at
Morden"*

* - I understand that this announcements are necessary in opposite
directions (especially for Northern), but why bug eastbound/southbound
passengers.

And you can see it on the platform and at the front of the train.
Kind of strange that there's no equivalent for buses, where there's
usually only what you see at the front, and yet a bus that stops short
results in you having to pay twice, whereas if your train terminates
at North Greenwich, you don't lose anything.


Seems I am out of date.

I was on a bus yesterday where both a display and a recorded voice
announced the name of every bus stop as we approached and then
announced the route number and destination as we left every stop.

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:54:04 -0700, MIG
wrote:

Seems I am out of date.

I was on a bus yesterday where both a display and a recorded voice
announced the name of every bus stop as we approached and then
announced the route number and destination as we left every stop.

You clearly missed the "I-Bus is live" thread up there somewhere^^^^
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Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

On Jul 16, 4:43 pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:54:04 -0700, MIG
wrote:

Seems I am out of date.

I was on a bus yesterday where both a display and a recorded voice
announced the name of every bus stop as we approached and then
announced the route number and destination as we left every stop.

You clearly missed the "I-Bus is live" thread up there somewhere^^^^
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Paul C

Admits to working for London Underground!


I saw the thread, but had no idea what it was referring to. I assumed
it was something to do with data transfer betweem mp3 players or
something and didn't read it ...