This article appears in Jan 1-7, 2009.
Go Time
Why can’t those computer screen Go Time monitors just loop the bus times? For example, if I’m waiting to see how long the 2 will take, I get maybe 2 seconds before it’s off the screen and then it takes forever for me to see the times again. Why can’t it
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Yes, very much agreed, the #1 is probably the most used bus, but you can’t ever catch the time for it. And seeing as how they did have other ways of doing it before, its bizarre that they’ve decided this is the new way to go.I almost think they should have a touch screen like at the movies, where you touch the route you want to see, it tells you the times for the next 2 hours, and in nice big print, then you’re done. It’d be faster and better because now you get like 10 people all gathered aorund trying to see their time, which you cant unless you’re at the perfect angle, and you have to wait so long for your time to scroll by that everyone around you is annoyed. This would make it take 2 seconds for each person, then they’d move on.
Prs that’s a great idea, until you remember that Metro Transit can’t keep half the terminals running or readable due to idiots wreaking the machines, and scratching the displays.
Annoying and then some this is. Don’t just bitch about it (though it is a good start), call HRM’s one size fits all line (490-4000) and let them know about this annoying piece of programming. It could scroll in a loop or it could do as the old ones did and do multiple screens for all the routes. HRM needs to know this annoys passengers before they’ll commit their IT team to improving it.
I’d like to add to this besides the slow scrolling thing- why the hell is the Scotia Square one inside the mall of the Duke Street entrance, when the majority of the buses are stopping on Barrington heading south? It’s not like a person would have time to walk from the stop, go inside, read the monitor and get back out before their bus came if it were due within a minute or so. You may as well say there is no Go-Time for the Barrington stops, because it’s pretty useless where it is.
I don’t get why Metro Transit doesn’t just get a touch screen panel that allows you to scroll through manually like an iTunes catalogue. One at every major stop would be reasonable. They should also have an automated scrolling window on every bus right behind the driver so that passengers know exactly when they have missed their connecting bus by less than a minute. Oh. And buses should fly while they’re at it. Until bus drivers get hired based on customer service, as well as driving record, the scheduling monitors are the least of their worries. Be serious. Carry a book. Or program your regular GoTime locations into your cell.