Re: [Vic] Station stuff [was Riversdale Station Question]

[usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael)]

smithb@alphalink.com.au (Ben) wrote in <3a2eb9b1@news.alphalink.com.au>:

>> As for the up PIDS... Pick a random number and put it in the time
>> field. Usually it sticks at about 4 or 7 minutes, and jumps down to 3
>> then 2. At 2, you see the train coming around the corner and "sonia
>> with balls" goes off.

>Sometimes 2 min never appears, it jumps from 3 to 1.

Seen that too.

>"Sonia with balls", yeah you mean "ATTENTION PLATFORM X THE Y:YY to Z IS
>NOW APPROACHING", absolutly bloody scary she is.

Nah, the green button man, and non-city-loop announcer. Can't think of 
another name for Sonia (:

>I love the sonar sound that they had going in the city loop a few months
>back, that was good. But the music (if thats what people like to call
>it) that they play now is just plain annoying, they should stop that
>right now. 

North Melbourne, and more recently Melbourne Central have had some 
announcer chimes that go in 5 stages. North Melbourne seems to have done 
away with it. I did hear the same one at Martin Place in Sydney a few 
months ago back in Feb.

Michael

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