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March 11th 06, 12:00 PM
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Waterloo This Afternoon
MIG wrote:
wrote: It got me thinking, wouldn't it be a good investment by TFL to replace all those whiteboards with centrally controlled electronic signboards that do not rely on chinese whispers for the information to get to the station staff, and do not rely on staff, who are probably overworked by this stage answering questions from desparate commuters, having the time to keep them up to date? I have seen some electronic versions so maybe this is already happening, but I'm not sure if they're centrally controlled. Absolutely not, sorry. If information is provided by a person, with a whiteboard marker or whatever, at least it's information. The garbage spewed out by bug-ridden computer systems is not information. It's just mindless response to various inputs whose complexities and implications are not adequately predicted in the programs. "Centrally controlled" doesn't have to mean that the information is computer-generated. The current system relies on someone centrally generating information (e.g. that SWT trains had started running again from Waterloo, in this example) and passing it out by whatever means to stations, whose staff then update whiteboards etc. If the transmission could be direct to electronic displays in the stations, it would be more up-to-date. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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