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How does that help someone who is deaf? Also are they going to announce if elevators are out of service as well? The led screens Metrolink has installed on here and on the crosstown are absolutely useless unless you want to know what the next two trains on a platform are coming. The video screens that the TTC has are more useful than those any day.
The TTC screens on the platform show information when an elevator is out of service at a station as well as when parts of a line is out of service which is useful information that the ones on the Metrolink platforms are missing, probably because they think that every one is going to check their emails to find out that information.
Other places show more train information because they have more than one line serving a station. In Toronto we don't so having information about more than one train is pointless, i don't understand why anyone thinks you need to know that there is a train in 5 minutes and then one going to the same direction in 10 minutes.
I mean...it gives me some idea of frequency and delays. I'm with @T3G - if I'm at a station, the overhead LCDs can tell me what's happening on the current line. Pedestal LCDs on the platform can give more system-wide information.
The TTC displays show more information then a crappy two line dot matrix screen that will only show two train. Why knowing if the train behind the one coming to the station is delayed is helpful to anyone i have no clue what you are thinking that is helpful. What is helpful is if you are going somewhere and knowing in advance that there is a service interruption or if you need an elevator that one is out of service. Metrolink's has made a really poor choice with these signs and they shou d change them to the same standard at the TTC has for it's stations.
OK. I can buy that.
Yeah - agreed on that.
No. The TTC's model used on subway platforms is s****y. The vast majority of the screen is not devoted to useful service information. It needs a rethink, just as much as Metrolinx's model that you dislike.
No metrolinks design is worse becuse it can't be changed to show anythging else other then pointles informain about the next two trains. It's a good as the next train sign at theends of the line at TTC subway sations and nothing else. Just becuse you don't want to know what is going on ibn the worksd when you are on a subway paltform or LRT platfom in this case doesn't mean that other people don't. The sceens on go train paltformes would be a better upagarde then the cheap crap they used here.
Whatever i just think on a platform at an underground, interchange station there should be better information screens then on an outdoor platform.
So that I know how much longer I'm going to have to suffer in the bitter cold, or if the service gap is so huge I should cut my losses and call an Uber.
This will clearly get tagged by graffiti and it also could be a bad spot to get mugged..
I wasn't talking about the ones on the outside platforms. I was talking about the ones on the underground platforms where people will be changing to line 1 and may even be going to other lines as well.
Just because you don't think you need that information doesn't mean that someone else won't as well. Both this line and the crosstown will be operating similar to the subway and not like a streetcar despite what people on here want you to think based on nothing at all except their own opinion of them running above ground and not being completely separate from cars.
