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Technology for its own sake?
Solar Penguin wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 24 Sep 2004:
--- "Dave Liney" wrote: Just use that information to decide whether or not to open the doors at each station. Problem solved. Until a security alert closes a station so the train doesn't stop there and then the count is off by one. So how does it keep the count of "The next station is..." displays updated when that happens? I don't think it does. My mother was travelling on a train from Clapham Junction to Arundel; I don't know what had gone wrong, but the train she was aiming for was cancelled, and the following train was only 4 carriages, not 8. As you can imagine, it was packed out, but luckily someone gave her their seat, so she was all right. Anyway, she told me afterwards that the electronic displays thought they were going to London, not away from it, so that "The next station is" was totally out of phase with reality! She said it was very funny. -- "Mrs Redboots" http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/ Website updated 11 September 2004 |
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