Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

["Johann Fan" <jyf@optusnet.com.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
7rdn44$gic$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU">news:7rdn44$gic$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU...
> : Maybe the staff are sick of making the announcements, the novelty has
worn
> : off.........could u say that announcement at every stop? There has been
> : plenty of examples of this in both Sydney (most recent example "stand
clear,
> : doors closing) and Melbourne.
>
> I though the automatic ticket annoucements were pre recorded and
transmitted
> to the trams.,

Surely they could of done it more professionally (Swanston). There seems to
be phones ringing and people talking in the background, etc.

> : Eric
> : www.webalias.com/erknet
>
> : Paul Dwerryhouse wrote in message <7rc5gq$ovc$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>...
> : >
> : >Has anyone noticed how the Tram announcements (you know: "Good
> : >morning passengers... Swansong Trams would like to remind you to
validate
> : >your tickets on every journey so that we can trace your every movement
and
> : >invade your privacy ... [etc]") have suddenly disappeared, as the
Victorian
> : >election approaches?
> : >
> : >>
> : >
> : >--
> : >"The growing use of e-mail, not to mention Web-page   |   Paul
Dwerryhouse
> : >publishing, threatens to reverse the trend towards    |_
> : paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au
> : >illiteracy among the supposedly educated without at the |___
Melbourne,
> : >same time improving their spelling". -- Michael Swaine, DDJ |
Australia.
>
>
>
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>
> Chris Gordon
> http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord