On Aug 16, 6:54 pm, "Q" ..@.. wrote:
"chunky munky" wrote in message

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Well the whole Connect system is a mess! Nice idea, very poorly
executed at the design stage.

Just like Airwave then - nice idea, shame about the role out...

Would handing the system over to Airwave make it more reliable I
wonder?

Nooooooooooo!!!! It would never work, and if there where any other users it
would be full!
We have to suffer with airwave and while it might sometimes be upto the job
for day to day work when things go wrong is usless and you might as well try
your luck with the phones or analogue radio which often works much much
better.

What I meant was to keep the existing Connect kit but hand the
management over, Thales are currently the maintainer. I don't know if
this is possible unless the PFI is cancelled just like Prestige
(Oyster).

All the TfL press releases have gone on about Connect saving time
during incidents etc etc, but is definatly hasn't! The only benefit is
9 out of 10 times, you can at least hear the person on other end of
the train radio!