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[tags]los angeles, mta, red line, purple line[/tags]
Credit: Fred Camino
Fred is out of town, but passed along these photos of the new LCD information screens on the Metro Red and Purple lines. These are likely the replacements for the single-line red LED displays throughout the Metro rail system.
Photos are also available for download on Fred’s Flickr account.
The new displays can publish four lines of information, and two more lines for tickers.
The signs post more than the dos and (mostly) don’ts of riding the rail lines, repeating the signs posted throughout the stations. Here, the sign alerts passengers of a planned delay to night service.
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The Militant’s jaw drops.
No wait…if it starts to display “NEXT TRAIN X MINUTES” info, then the Militant’s jaw shall drop.
And hey, another outlet for ad revenue!
please zombie jesus, please let those assholes tell us when the next f-ing train leaves
i dont know why that has to be such top secret information at our retarded subway stations
i h8 those jerks at the mta
just kidding, much love
Yeah, the new screens are very sexy. Now, if we can just get the MTA to pull Service Alerts out of the system once their effective dates have passed.
All I ask is for the displays to let passengers know when the next train is a Red to North Hollywood or Purple to Western.
See Metro Board Item from last march:
http://www.metro.net/board/Items/2007/03_March/20070314OPItem32.pdf
“The system wil provide the following critical information to the public:
-Train arrival time and track number.
-Train departure time and track number.
-Information on train route and final destination.
-Information on servce interruptions or delays.
-Notification if approaching train is not in service.
-Public service announcements.
-Warning, prohibitive, and general safety messages in variable formats.
-Emergency instructions and evacuation procedures.”
I saw these on Saturday at Union Station.
Anyone know if they have been installed anywhere else yet?????
I don’t get the preoccupation with “next train” arrival signs. While the info. is good to know, how exactly is it useful? It’s not like we’re in NYC where we can take a different line if our train is late. All we can really do is wait for the train either way. Although I guess if there’s some major problem you can walk out and take a bus instead, but aside from that…
Shaun: “Next Train” messages will keep people from defaulting to the common practice of peering over the edge of the platform to see if there’s a train approaching. When passengers do that they run the risk of falling into the tracks. In other words, “Next Train” messages make the system a heck of a lot safer.
Shawn,
“Next Train” info offers peace of mind and effective communication between the system and the riders. By your train of thought (pardon the pun), schedules in general are useless because the train/bus is going to come at sometime, why bother knowing when?
Next Train is wonderful. I ride the 750 and the stops all have “next bus arriving in X minutes.” Same goes for Orange Line.