tobuadantoq Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 Do you think announcements on the CTA bus annoy you? If you think it is, what is the most annoying announcements? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneking7320 Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 The announcements don't annoy me as they formerly did. What annoys me now is when the machine plays a stop announcement and a Public Service Announcement at the same time. Maybe the system should be adjusted to give priority to the stop announcement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 The announcements don't annoy me as they formerly did. What annoys me now is when the machine plays a stop announcement and a Public Service Announcement at the same time. Maybe the system should be adjusted to give priority to the stop announcement. Yes I agree. My thought on it is if I were blind or otherwise visually impaired, I would have a hard time knowing if I were at my stop if the PSA were running at the same time. There definitely needs to be an adjustment there. An example of this nuisance is the transit card vending machine announcements for Union station on the 126 that's given almost at the same time as the announcement for the Adams/Wacker stop. One other thing that used to annoy me is that early on when the system was first being implemented and the bugs getting worked out, it didn't always give accurate detour information when there was a long term detour in effect on a certain bus route, and stops along the detour routing wasn't programmed into the system. One example I can give is from a few years back when the city reconstructed the viaduct on Kedzie just north of Fillmore St. This required a detour of the 52 onto Homan between Roosevelt and Polk. The southbound announcement was fine, but the northbound announcement that played when approaching Roosevelt was: 'Due to construction this bus will detour after Cermak.' I still shake my head because the construction project was a few months long and the announcement never got corrected during the whole duration of the project. Another thing that is kind of funny instead of annoying is the westbound stop announcements for the 126 for the Medical District routing doesn't give the stops between Damen/Harrison and Western/Jackson even though the bus does make those stops in between. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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