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Oi! Boris! Wot abaht the bus shelters?
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:52:27 -0000, "Andrew Heenan"
wrote: 1. New display equipment without obsolete componenets 2. Wired into iBus. I am pretty sure there are plans to do both of these. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the at to reply. |
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Oi! Boris! Wot abaht the bus shelters?
On 25 Jan, 08:52, "Andrew Heenan" wrote: "Maria" wrote: I disagree with this, most of the people having to use the bus might not have portable data access, be able to use it or want to pay to use it. Also pulling out your mobile or blackberry at a bus shelter might mean that you are forceably separated from it. *No, fix countdown *I say.. Both. But fix countdown *first* 1. New display equipment without obsolete componenets 2. Wired into iBus. Is the Countdown display equipment at bus stops really obsolete? |
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Oi! Boris! Wot abaht the bus shelters?
"Mizter T" wrote:
Both. But fix countdown *first* 1. New display equipment without obsolete componenets 2. Wired into iBus. Is the Countdown display equipment at bus stops really obsolete? When iBus was 'launched', one of the arguments justifying the cost was that as well as being technically superior (which it most certainly is), it would deal with the problem that spare parts were getting increasingly difficult to obtain. Accellerated removal rather than repair of knackered boxes supports this, but I've yet to see anything 'official' - either way. -- Andrew |
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Oi! Boris! Wot abaht the bus shelters?
On 25 Jan, 18:22, "Andrew Heenan" wrote: "Mizter T" wrote: Both. But fix countdown *first* 1. New display equipment without obsolete componenets 2. Wired into iBus. Is the Countdown display equipment at bus stops really obsolete? When iBus was 'launched', one of the arguments justifying the cost was that as well as being technically superior (which it most certainly is), it would deal with the problem that spare parts were getting increasingly difficult to obtain. *Accellerated removal rather than repair of knackered boxes supports this, but I've yet to see anything 'official' - either way. But I dare say that may just have been referring to the beacon-based tracking system as opposed to the rather more visible dot-matrix displays at bus stops. |
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Oi! Boris! Wot abaht the bus shelters?
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Oi! Boris! Wot abaht the bus shelters?
On 25 Jan, 18:58, wrote: In article , (Andrew Heenan) wrote: "Mizter T" wrote: Both. But fix countdown *first* 1. New display equipment without obsolete componenets 2. Wired into iBus. Is the Countdown display equipment at bus stops really obsolete? When iBus was 'launched', one of the arguments justifying the cost was that as well as being technically superior (which it most certainly is), it would deal with the problem that spare parts were getting increasingly difficult to obtain. *Accellerated removal rather than repair of knackered boxes supports this, but I've yet to see anything 'official' - either way. Presumably removal of some also generates a supply of spares for those remaining in use? As I said in my other reply to Andrew, the "obsolete equipment" that the iBus system will replace is nothing to do with the actual Countdown dot-matrix displays - after all this is hardly specialist equipment, it's just standard off-the-shelf stuff- the obsolete equipment argument surely revolves around the whole beacon tracking system on which Countdown is based. AIUI this beacon tracking system used to form the basis of TfL's bus tracking system (see earlier posts in this thread), but that role has now moved on to the GPS tracking system employed in the iBus project. |
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Oi! Boris! Wot abaht the bus shelters?
"Mizter T" wrote:
But I dare say that may just have been referring to the beacon-based tracking system as opposed to the rather more visible dot-matrix displays at bus stops. Your guess is as good as mine - fact is, they don't fix them very well or very often, and in my part of the world, they seem tobe removing them if the y break down (islington). But it's fair to say that LED displays have moved significantly in the past few years; it's certainly not beyond the bounds of possibility that they ARE obsolete. Frankly, I don't care - so long as they work! ) |
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