This is just as annoying at stations as it is on trains, but good to see it get reduced.
People who say Tannoy when they mean public address system. Tannoy is a brand name. This country.
Oh Lord I swear every journey to London is torture.
<FEEDBACK SQUEAL>
Ladies and gentlemen wel……………:30 to st Pancras.
<SQUEAL>
The train calls at…………….and Kettering, before……………Pancras at 7:15.
<SQUEAL>
If you see……..:<SQUEAL>……See it, say it, sorted
1st floor
Doors opening
Doors closing
2nd floor
Doors opening
Doors closing
Oh shut the fuck up !
As long as it doesn’t make the journeys of visually impaired people more difficult.
People in this post didn’t even read the article. They aren’t getting rid of actual announcements just needless messages like ‘have your ticket ready’ etc. Things like announcing stations, doors opening and information about BTP are in the public interest and are being retained.
But how will I know what to do if I see anything suspicious!?
If you see something that doesn’t look right, report it to a member of staff or British Transport Police on 81016. See it, say it, sorted.
Boris is using the same trick as magicians use. Look over here and focus on this thing that annoys a few people and ignore the real issues that are happening
Welcome to this merseyrail service to Liverpool central, the next station is green lane
Can they simultaneously ban trains from announcing stuff over tannoy and not also providing the same information visually. I cannot hear a tannoy. I don’t need to hear most of the useless information, but knowing what station is next is useful. Same if I need to be in the front however many carriages due to a short platform.
Half the time that information is only on tannoy, so it’s inaccessible to me as a deaf person.
Good idea. It’s pretty frustrating when you board a train early in the morning, only to have the announcer repeat irritating banalities.
Remember to take your bags with you. Have your ticket ready at all times. If you see something suspicious, report it. Mind the gap when you get off the train. There is a food trolley, it has various snacks and drinks. This is a <train operator> journey. My name is <nobody cares>. Have a great day. I’m going to list every single station and repeat this message when you decide to shut your eyes and have a snooze.
The problem with all the announcements is that you stop listening to them. If they are all useless information then people turn off and stick their headphones on. That means missing the critical ones like a change of destination, or perhaps the train being on fire.
Idk, I find it helpful, especially on an unfamiliar journey.
There is a driver on my train who tells riddles over the speaker.
I’m going go to be spending the day using my brain to solve problems at work, just leave me be on my miserable, freezing cold, 6am train.
Welcome to Wales, where the tannoy spam is done in both English and Welsh.
There was a bus route on the Eng/Wal border that introduced new ‘Sapphire’ buses that announced the stops. For each stop it made three announcements – ‘We are approaching xyz’, ‘This is xyz’, and ‘The next stop is abc’. This was initially bilingual and from the moment the bus left one station to arriving at the other, the PA system was going constantly.
Now it’s been rationalised down but still fugging annoying.
Reminds me of travelling on a train a fair while ago. A young lady was complaining to her (I presume ex) boyfriend on her phone, saying she won’t tell him where she’s going.
The train, at full volume, then proudly announced “we will shortly be arriving into Leeds! This train terminates here!”
The Tories have announced this like it’s some huge win. They’re flooding news sites with as much spam as possible to detract from the major shit going on. What’s next? Legislation to reduce manspreading on public transport? A ban on toffee pennies being too numerous in Quality Street?
I’d put up with as many tannoy announcements as they wanted if ticket prices weren’t going up 4%.
The See it Say it Sort it one the article says they may be getting rid of is required by the department of transport anyway. Every hour or more depending on the threat level.
I’ll be happy when the coronavirus ones go though
Good. On some trains it’s like a depressing litany of potential punishments.
“Please have your ticket ready. If you have an advance ticket, it must be valid for this service, the [whatever] service to [place], or else you will be charged for a full price ticket. If your ticket is not valid on [operator] you will be fined. I’ll be moving down the train to check tickets and if you do not show one, you will be fined. A snacks and drinks service is in operation on this train, if you do not buy one, you will be charged…” 😛
I thought we had competition in the rail industry,
So can we not just hop on trains without all these announcements and let the market decide whether they should be played?
Some announcements are definitely needed, but I’ve been at train stations (e.g., Paddington) and heard three (yes, *three*) separate automated announcements played over the top of each other, only for them to then be interrupted by a real human being announcing that *”the [unintelligible] on platform [unintelligible] has been [unintelligible] <screeeeeech, static static>. REPEAT the [unintelligible] on platform [unintelligible]-teen has been [unintelligible]”*
Changing that would be nice.
So now you just have to suffer everyone else blethering more.
I am glad to see the government taking action on important stuff like this.
Why are they keeping “see it say it sorted?” Of all the ones they could get rid of that surely the first utterly redundant one? And it’s of no use at all to the visually impaired like some announcements are.
It’s the train guards who decide that we all need to hear their muffled voice and microphone feedback to hear the stop information, rather than the automated voice, that irritate me most.
Pathetic. Can we please focus on something important?
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This is just as annoying at stations as it is on trains, but good to see it get reduced.
People who say Tannoy when they mean public address system. Tannoy is a brand name. This country.
Oh Lord I swear every journey to London is torture.
<FEEDBACK SQUEAL>
Ladies and gentlemen wel……………:30 to st Pancras.
<SQUEAL>
The train calls at…………….and Kettering, before……………Pancras at 7:15.
<SQUEAL>
If you see……..:<SQUEAL>……See it, say it, sorted
1st floor
Doors opening
Doors closing
2nd floor
Doors opening
Doors closing
Oh shut the fuck up !
As long as it doesn’t make the journeys of visually impaired people more difficult.
People in this post didn’t even read the article. They aren’t getting rid of actual announcements just needless messages like ‘have your ticket ready’ etc. Things like announcing stations, doors opening and information about BTP are in the public interest and are being retained.
But how will I know what to do if I see anything suspicious!?
If you see something that doesn’t look right, report it to a member of staff or British Transport Police on 81016. See it, say it, sorted.
Boris is using the same trick as magicians use. Look over here and focus on this thing that annoys a few people and ignore the real issues that are happening
Welcome to this merseyrail service to Liverpool central, the next station is green lane
Can they simultaneously ban trains from announcing stuff over tannoy and not also providing the same information visually. I cannot hear a tannoy. I don’t need to hear most of the useless information, but knowing what station is next is useful. Same if I need to be in the front however many carriages due to a short platform.
Half the time that information is only on tannoy, so it’s inaccessible to me as a deaf person.
Good idea. It’s pretty frustrating when you board a train early in the morning, only to have the announcer repeat irritating banalities.
Remember to take your bags with you. Have your ticket ready at all times. If you see something suspicious, report it. Mind the gap when you get off the train. There is a food trolley, it has various snacks and drinks. This is a <train operator> journey. My name is <nobody cares>. Have a great day. I’m going to list every single station and repeat this message when you decide to shut your eyes and have a snooze.
The problem with all the announcements is that you stop listening to them. If they are all useless information then people turn off and stick their headphones on. That means missing the critical ones like a change of destination, or perhaps the train being on fire.
Idk, I find it helpful, especially on an unfamiliar journey.
There is a driver on my train who tells riddles over the speaker.
I’m going go to be spending the day using my brain to solve problems at work, just leave me be on my miserable, freezing cold, 6am train.
Welcome to Wales, where the tannoy spam is done in both English and Welsh.
There was a bus route on the Eng/Wal border that introduced new ‘Sapphire’ buses that announced the stops. For each stop it made three announcements – ‘We are approaching xyz’, ‘This is xyz’, and ‘The next stop is abc’. This was initially bilingual and from the moment the bus left one station to arriving at the other, the PA system was going constantly.
Now it’s been rationalised down but still fugging annoying.
Reminds me of travelling on a train a fair while ago. A young lady was complaining to her (I presume ex) boyfriend on her phone, saying she won’t tell him where she’s going.
The train, at full volume, then proudly announced “we will shortly be arriving into Leeds! This train terminates here!”
The Tories have announced this like it’s some huge win. They’re flooding news sites with as much spam as possible to detract from the major shit going on. What’s next? Legislation to reduce manspreading on public transport? A ban on toffee pennies being too numerous in Quality Street?
I’d put up with as many tannoy announcements as they wanted if ticket prices weren’t going up 4%.
The See it Say it Sort it one the article says they may be getting rid of is required by the department of transport anyway. Every hour or more depending on the threat level.
I’ll be happy when the coronavirus ones go though
Good. On some trains it’s like a depressing litany of potential punishments.
“Please have your ticket ready. If you have an advance ticket, it must be valid for this service, the [whatever] service to [place], or else you will be charged for a full price ticket. If your ticket is not valid on [operator] you will be fined. I’ll be moving down the train to check tickets and if you do not show one, you will be fined. A snacks and drinks service is in operation on this train, if you do not buy one, you will be charged…” 😛
I thought we had competition in the rail industry,
So can we not just hop on trains without all these announcements and let the market decide whether they should be played?
Some announcements are definitely needed, but I’ve been at train stations (e.g., Paddington) and heard three (yes, *three*) separate automated announcements played over the top of each other, only for them to then be interrupted by a real human being announcing that *”the [unintelligible] on platform [unintelligible] has been [unintelligible] <screeeeeech, static static>. REPEAT the [unintelligible] on platform [unintelligible]-teen has been [unintelligible]”*
Changing that would be nice.
So now you just have to suffer everyone else blethering more.
I am glad to see the government taking action on important stuff like this.
Why are they keeping “see it say it sorted?” Of all the ones they could get rid of that surely the first utterly redundant one? And it’s of no use at all to the visually impaired like some announcements are.
It’s the train guards who decide that we all need to hear their muffled voice and microphone feedback to hear the stop information, rather than the automated voice, that irritate me most.
Pathetic. Can we please focus on something important?