Re: [melb] PIDs on Connex Comengs

["Paul" <none@news.com>]

"OgO" <quentisl@leaves.qjc.cjb.net> wrote :

> It's also a little late to get of if you don't in fact want to
> go all the way to Camberwell...  That's still my number 1 gripe
> about Flinders Street - There is absolutely NO point AT ALL in
> announcing where a train is going, as it's pulling out of the
> station, especially when the train has been sitting there for
> five minutes without any announcement at all.

Hang on.....PRIDE announcements are played at Flinders St as it arrives and
will usually announce the stopping pattern immediately before departure with
a "stand clear....train now departing...stand clear please" sound bite
attached.  I have heard messages whilst a train is sitting on the platform.
Having said all this, the first PRIDE version does not announce a
terminating train.

>An announcement should be made at least 10 seconds before the driver closes
the
> doors and departs

I know of no passenger information system in the world that can identify
when a manned train is about to close it's doors!  It knows the time it
should depart, but of course cannot predict when a driver will press the
"Close Doors" button.