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Posted 28 January 2018 - 08:02 PM

The Star, Toronto, Ont. 1/24/18:

Can you hear me now? TTC tackling garbled subway announcements

 

Transit agency is replacing its 20-year-old analogue subway radio system with a digital one, which should allow riders to actually understand service announcements.

 

 

“Attention cus-----s on Line ---, we are cu--ently experien---- a del-- eastbo--- at B---- ---tion. S---vice has been s-----ded, and ---ttle b---s are on their way.”

 

On the list of TTC riders’ most common gripes, incoherent service announcements rank near the top, somewhere behind unexpected subway shutdowns and the dreaded short turned streetcar.

 

Anyone who rides regularly has had the irritating experience: a voice comes over the subway car speakers issuing potentially vital information, but the message is maddeningly quiet, full of static, and hopelessly unintelligible.

 

The poor quality of subway announcements is so notorious that in 2016 it was immortalized on T-shirts sold at a spoof TTC swag shop.

 






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