Re: (NSW) NEW Desto's

[petercook2705@my-deja.com]

If you can get them to work and display correct destinations, then
wonderful.  If it's acting up, then try and clear the screen and switch
it off.  At least it's one less train displaying an incorrect
destination.  But that doesn't mean that Joe Public (Commuter/Tourist)
should actually rely on the info they display.

If we're lucky, one day (in a few decades perhaps) CityRail may even
upgrade the system and install vandal-proof keypads and control systems
that actually work!  Although I'm probably being a little optimistic
here.

That reminds me, what has happened to the destos on Ts and Gs - from
recent experience are usually either switched off, invisible or
otherwise unreadable in both open areas and tunnels.  I can only
remember being able to read one or maybe two from recent memory.

And what happened to using running lights to indicate a train's route?
Why were the top centre and bottom lights removed from the S-type
sets?  Did it by any chance have something to do with the introduction
of our beloved destos?

Granted several new lines have recently been opened (Cumberland,
Airport & LOP Sprint, not to mention BOP & STOP, and the proposed Parra-
Chatswood and Epping-Castle Hill lines) which would have probably
necessitated either throwing in one or two red lights or installing
another array of lights on every set, but I do know of a few commuters
(particularly around Glenfield-Campbelltown, Cabramatta and also to a
lesser extent Hornsby) who relied on these lights to indicate which way
an approaching train went.  It's probably a lot harder for a vandal to
disable four large 3-way switches than it a cheap little keypad.


MrPC
ICQ 58337073

In article <3a1927d7$0$19410$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
  "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>
> <petercook2705@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> 8vacb7$j8m$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8vacb7$j8m$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > OK Tezza, I agree the destination on non-tangaras is quite often
> > correct, but the point remains that displaying destinations is a
> > worthless and futile exercise when the information they display is
> > unreliable.
>
> So I shouldn't bother in future then?


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