John Rowland wrote:
"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any information or insight into when the mooted
audio "next stop" information might be introduced to buses?


Audio announcements are very annoying. One of the selling points of public
transport over cars is that you can study, type or write while travelling.
If they must introduce audio announcements, maybe they could be activated by
a beacon which only the blind and illiterate are able to acquire. Or better
still, the blind could be given GPS units with earphones.

I can see how they can be annoying - but then an advantage of public
transport over cars should be that you can navigate to unfamiliar places
a lot more easily.

Audio announcements should be reasonably easy to make as most buses
have PA systems which I'm sure could be wired into a computer; however,
not many buses have screens (ironically, on the newest buses e.g. route
9 *and* the oldest i.e. some Routemasters), and I don't think I've ever
seen a London bus with an internal LED display.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London