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internet timetable displays was countrylink timetable
- Subject: internet timetable displays was countrylink timetable
- From: "geoff dawson" <geoffrey.dawson@aph.gov.au>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 08:52:33 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:10037
Surely it would be easy enough to give the customer the choice: do you want
to see the full timetable sheet, or do you only want to know how to get from
A to B around 10am Wednesday?
Even when not in railfan mode, ie even when I simply want to go from A to B,
I find the 'search' style intensely irritating. You go through half a
movements and find that perhaps there isn't a convenient service around 10am
Wednesday at all. So when is there one? Or is another one faster? Repeat the
whole process. By contrast, scanning the timetable sheet takes a second. To
my mind, a classic case of mindlessly embracing an advanced technological
possibility without stopping to think about whether it gives a significant
benefit.
Geoff Dawson