Must be challenging for them to announce trains more than 3 minutes before departure when they only know what platform they’re on 2 minutes before.
3 minutes seems far too much, and reading the article they’re even doing 4 minutes.
This needs massively refining. I’m all for it disappearing like a minute or so before, because on theory you cannot make it from looking at those boards to the train itself within one minute but making a train disappear that you 100% can make it to is just wrong.
So they’d prefer people to enitrely miss their trains than rush in the last few minutes. Seems like this could better be prevented by posting the departure platforms earlier? People will just switch to checking departure platforms online instead.
Imagine needing to rely on the regular train apps and departure boards, which both host the delayed and “well, I’m not telling you yet, and now I’m not telling you anymore” information.
RTT, if you know, you know.
Who is even using departure boards? My phone told me the platform I want an hour before I got there
Of all the things going on in the world right now, this is definitely the one that makes me the most angry.
A number of tube stations do it too.
Tube disappears from High Barnet and Archway screens when there is a minute to go til departure, even though you can easily get to both platforms in less than a minute.
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Must be challenging for them to announce trains more than 3 minutes before departure when they only know what platform they’re on 2 minutes before.
3 minutes seems far too much, and reading the article they’re even doing 4 minutes.
This needs massively refining. I’m all for it disappearing like a minute or so before, because on theory you cannot make it from looking at those boards to the train itself within one minute but making a train disappear that you 100% can make it to is just wrong.
So they’d prefer people to enitrely miss their trains than rush in the last few minutes. Seems like this could better be prevented by posting the departure platforms earlier? People will just switch to checking departure platforms online instead.
Imagine needing to rely on the regular train apps and departure boards, which both host the delayed and “well, I’m not telling you yet, and now I’m not telling you anymore” information.
RTT, if you know, you know.
Who is even using departure boards? My phone told me the platform I want an hour before I got there
Of all the things going on in the world right now, this is definitely the one that makes me the most angry.
A number of tube stations do it too.
Tube disappears from High Barnet and Archway screens when there is a minute to go til departure, even though you can easily get to both platforms in less than a minute.
Does my head in.
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