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[lastcommodore]

I like to believe that riders are smart enough that if a service is down they can quickly search or google alternative options. That's what I do when I travel, anyway.

With all due respect to "Riders are smart enough to know who runs what services and knows where to check it for info and what alternatives there are for diversions", i wish however
https://xkcd.com/2501/

Additionally the reality is that it you must not compensate for the average rider but the bottom 10%, or perhaps even bottom 1% of riders.

Do you think that if Lakeshore East service is down from Oshawa that VIA Rail should be plastering Oshawa Durham College GO Station with signage indicating as such? It's not their responsibility if other services falter.

Yeah? People on VIA rail connect from Oshawa to their destination using GO... They should appropriately tell their customers prior to arriving at Oshawa that if they are connecting to GO, it is not operating and there are replacement buses at wherever.

I suppose we must agree to disagree at this point.

 

[Mihairokov]

Guess who just got stranded at Mount Dennis at six fifteen am because UPX is down due to a "freight train issue" lol

 

[DSCToronto]

This was the post:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2045876581143367703

They could still put a sign up at Dundas West telling people to continue to Kipling and catch the 900 so that their customers don't have to walk 5 minutes outside to the Bloor UP station only to realize it's closed and end up back on the TTC.

The TTC is none too good at posting signage about TTC closures, it is unrealistic to expect them to start posting (and then removing!!) signage about connected dislocations. POSSIBLY UPX should have a 'next train arrival' sign at Dundas West and maybe UPX should have a Pearson departures board somewhere but .....

 

[nfitz]

The TTC is none too good at posting signage about TTC closures, it is unrealistic to expect them to start posting (and then removing!!) signage about connected dislocations.

The TTC is excellent about posting every last broken elevator on the display screens in TTC stations, along with detours and line closures. There's endless announcements when there's a service issue on any of the lines.

Just need to integrate the data somehow.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Maybe UPX should wiretap and post the YYZ departures (we can leave out arrivals) screens at each of its stations?

There is plenty of room along the corridor walls at Mount Dennis Station for that.

Better than a blank wall.

 

[WB62]

Maybe UPX should wiretap and post the YYZ departures (we can leave out arrivals) screens at each of its stations?
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This was available at Union Station (maybe still is):

Flight information was also once available on the onboard screens, but I think that stopped years ago because screens barely worked:

 

[DSCToronto]

This was available at Union Station (maybe still is):

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Flight information was also once available on the onboard screens, but I think that stopped years ago because screens barely worked:

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I remember it from several years ago but the last time I was at union it was not there (or, at least, not working.)