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on Wed, 16 Sep 2015, David Cantrell remarked: It gets even more amusing when they run out of time to put the slips out Virgin's LCD displays above each seat are a great improvement. No they aren't. You can't see from the platform how many seats are reserved in the carriage, and once seated you can't see what the reservations are. -- Roland Perry |
New Heathrow Express Advance fares
Someone Somewhere wrote:
That it might be, but it's such a significant discount that it would be annoying to rock up and pay the full fare only to get on to find the train full of smug pensioners who had paid a mere pittance who would normally go a different route to save money at a cost of time. Or maybe they'd just go the same route and pay more. In any case they don't get reserved seats, so you've just got to beat them through the door when the train arrives. What is does do is destroy the case for taking the Heathrow Connect. Heathrow Connect is intended (or was originally, at any rate) for local traffic to the airport. Anna Noyd-Dryver |
New Heathrow Express Advance fares
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In message , at 10:14:20 on Thu, 17
Sep 2015, Neil Williams remarked: Totally agree with Roland. You don't know if they are only reserved for part of a journey You do, because they say so. Yes, I think they do. or if they are a no show. Also very hard to read from any angle. It was a good idea to have an electronic system for labour saving maybe but this implementation is abysmal. The problem with it is that it's an IT system designed and built in the late 1990s, and so is 20 years out of date. When I was at Heathrow T2 last week I was surprised to see that there was a CCTV camera for *every* space in the car park. One of the side effects (although they could do it with less intrusive technology) was that empty spaces had a green light above them, so you could see from afar, down each aisle, whether or not there was somewhere to park. Trains could have some system linked to checking if a seat was occupied (although their are issues if people put bags on seats) and have coloured lights above indicating (eg) Green for empty, Orange for empty-but reserved, and nothing for occupied. Or maybe red for occupied and in the foreseeable future a reservation pending. -- Roland Perry |
New Heathrow Express Advance fares
On 2015-09-17 10:01:22 +0000, Roland Perry said:
When I was at Heathrow T2 last week I was surprised to see that there was a CCTV camera for *every* space in the car park. One of the side effects (although they could do it with less intrusive technology) was that empty spaces had a green light above them, so you could see from afar, down each aisle, whether or not there was somewhere to park. That's "sensor parking". The camera is probably just detecting presence, rather than being recorded. There's a similar one in Milton Keynes, the sensors are just metal detectors and feed back (a) which spaces are free, and (b) direct wardens to overstayers. Trains could have some system linked to checking if a seat was occupied (although their are issues if people put bags on seats) and have coloured lights above indicating (eg) Green for empty, Orange for empty-but reserved, and nothing for occupied. Or maybe red for occupied and in the foreseeable future a reservation pending. Would be an option I suppose. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the @ to reply. |
New Heathrow Express Advance fares
In message , at 13:11:49 on Thu, 17
Sep 2015, Neil Williams remarked: When I was at Heathrow T2 last week I was surprised to see that there was a CCTV camera for *every* space in the car park. One of the side effects (although they could do it with less intrusive technology) was that empty spaces had a green light above them, so you could see from afar, down each aisle, whether or not there was somewhere to park. That's "sensor parking". The camera is probably just detecting presence, rather than being recorded. Yeah, right. -- Roland Perry |
New Heathrow Express Advance fares
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:01:22 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
Trains could have some system linked to checking if a seat was occupied (although their are issues if people put bags on seats) and have coloured lights above indicating (eg) Green for empty, Orange for empty-but reserved, and nothing for occupied. Or maybe red for occupied and in the foreseeable future a reservation pending. TfL have something similar for bus top deck seat occupancy in trial: http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/09/good-n...-seat-5141564/ Shorter seat backs though. |
New Heathrow Express Advance fares
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:11:49 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2015-09-17 10:01:22 +0000, Roland Perry said: When I was at Heathrow T2 last week I was surprised to see that there was a CCTV camera for *every* space in the car park. One of the side effects (although they could do it with less intrusive technology) was that empty spaces had a green light above them, so you could see from afar, down each aisle, whether or not there was somewhere to park. That's "sensor parking". The camera is probably just detecting presence, rather than being recorded. There's a similar one in Milton Keynes, the sensors are just metal detectors and feed back (a) which spaces are free, and (b) direct wardens to overstayers. The Westfield Stratford version OCRs your numberplate so it can tell you where you have parked if you have forgotten. |
New Heathrow Express Advance fares
On 2015-09-17 12:59:19 +0000, Roland Perry said:
Yeah, right. Not all CCTV cameras record things. To suggest they do is paranoia. They may not even be cameras, they may simply be ANPR or presence detection. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the @ to reply. |
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