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I think that ended 5 days ago.Because of the TTC track construction around King and Charlotte, streetcar service is detouring around the area.
I think that ended 5 days ago.Because of the TTC track construction around King and Charlotte, streetcar service is detouring around the area.
That's up to the app developers, not TTC's fault. Nextbus has no idea and the prediction continues till the bus goes off route.On the TTC website, there were the following:
The bad news, the transit apps don't show this. You get to a stop, look at your smartphone, and it says a bus will come to the stop in a couple minutes...still waiting... still waiting...32 Eglinton West diverting both ways via Marlee, Glencairn, Bathurst due to a scaffolding collapse at Bathurst and Eglinton.
Last updated 2:37 PM
32D Eglinton West diverting westbound via Jane, Weston due to construction at Jane and Emmett.
Last updated 3:43 PM
The apps should have red flags at the stops that link to the service alert.
On the TTC website, there were the following:
The bad news, the transit apps don't show this. You get to a stop, look at your smartphone, and it says a bus will come to the stop in a couple minutes...still waiting... still waiting...32 Eglinton West diverting both ways via Marlee, Glencairn, Bathurst due to a scaffolding collapse at Bathurst and Eglinton.
Last updated 2:37 PM
32D Eglinton West diverting westbound via Jane, Weston due to construction at Jane and Emmett.
Last updated 3:43 PM
The apps should have red flags at the stops that link to the service alert.
I think many of us don't set up an alert. They just walk to a bus stop, pull out their smartphone, and check to see when the next bus is "supposed" to be there.
Which transit apps have an alert capability? And can a senior citizen with dementia know how to to handle it?
What can one say? It's an announcement and if it correctly says where the bus is going I guess that's all one needs.I made a short audio recording of the new external route announcements that are being rolled out on the bus network. I've been trying to get a clear enough audio recording of it for a while now so that you guys can hear, and I finally did it. What do you think of it?
Transcript: One Hundred Ninety-Nine A, Finch Rocket, To Scarborough Centre, via Finch Station
What can one say? It's an announcement and if it correctly says where the bus is going I guess that's all one needs.
You may not like the way 199 is said (do you prefer one, nine, nine?) but it is a perfectly acceptable way to say it.One can say what one said to ACAT in a letter complaining about this completely undesigned boondoggle of a system: There is no such thing as a “one hundred ninety-nine” bus anywhere in the TTC.
As ever, when faced with the task of using human language to communicate with human beings, the jumped-up motormen, engineers, and Windows tinkerer-geeks at the TTC fall flat on their faces.
You may not like the way 199 is said (do you prefer one, nine, nine?) but it is a perfectly acceptable way to say it.
199 Finch Rocket
It's perfectly acceptable, but the text to speech should reflect local pronunciations. Adjusting to local speech is an issue go text to speech. We've seen similar problems in Google Maps, where it would call Hwy 401, "Ontario Highway Four Hundred and One, Macdonald Cartier Freeway, Highway Four Hundred and One Express" (something along those lines).