Paul Corfield wrote:
On 10 Nov 2006 18:02:34 -0800, "
wrote:


purple pete wrote:
Ironically, I tried to encourage one of the Arnos Grove crew to become a
professional announcer, because he has the best voice of anyone I've ever
met.


Send him to Wembley Park to replace the drone that makes those
announcements. Has the most monotone (northern accent) and sounds like he
is about to slit his wrists..and to make matters worse its obviously in a
loop so you cant get away - which leads me to notice how that since the
station has been rebuilt how they never stop making announcements. The
other day whilst waiting around 6 mins for a train there must have been
around 10 announcements announcing no smoking/dont slip on wet
surface/weekend service interupptions/good service on Met line/bad service
on etc.../stand behind yellow line at all times etc etc etc

stab, stab, stab

Sorry - calmed down now. The incessant stream of announcements on the
Tube drives me nuts. While I realise the provision of information is for
everyone's good if the service has gone wrong I do think we need to
reduce the frequency of these more "standard" announcements.

I can get 6 or 7 announcements on a really bad day from getting off a
Vic Line train to exiting Walthamstow Central. It only takes about 3
minutes for me to get through the station.

I could do it in my nyawk non axcent "yo da next train on the north
bound metropolitan train is going to amersham you gotta problem widdat
?"

Oh so that's what they say on the subway. I could never get my head
round what the guards were saying when they made announcements.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

In NYC MTA they are motormen who drive the train and conductors who
open and close the doors. BTW on the new trains R142 and newer thecars
have a electronic map which show the stops lit. and the announcements
are done by Bloomberg radio newsreaders this was done b4 bloomberg was
mayor