With things generally moving to pedestrianisation, there's definitely going to be more of them. They probably won't make it out of city centres for a while though. I don't have any definite sources, but it's inevitable that they will be installed in other areas outside of London that see high numbers of people walking.
'Press and hold'. That's exactly the thing I've seen many people having trouble with. On some units the press must be sufficiently long (perhaps 1s?) or it doesn't count. I saw people having trouble almost every day on the 317s. Still, it's better than the original class 313 setup where flanges were provided and the passemnger expected to try to push the door open until the mechanism took over. They really were a bad idea.
I never said that. I said you were relying on an availability bias.
My suggestion would be if you try to speak to people slightly more warmly you will be more likely to get positive responses.
That comment was aimed at pedestrian crossings. Though on closer inspection, they are in fact buttons. So they are just unreliable.
That's ridiculous. The OP said it would likely have taken a while for people to get used to sliding doors when they first replaced slam doors. To try and shoehorn that into something potentially "cancellable" - is an outrageous manipulation of his post, frankly.
I made a mistake. All the crossings I use frequently are in fact push buttons. Some are very hit and miss, and have been so for months. I have no data to prove that the failure rate is worse than 20 years ago. Perhaps broken buttons don't get repaired or replaced as quickly because all the councils are short of money.
To the best of my knowledge, the only vehicles that require the button to be held down are the six remaining class 508 trailers. I do the same as the person you replied to. If I hold down the open button, the doors will open instantly when released by the crew.
Oh!!! Is that why one of the banks of lifts at the Royal London has a sign near it pointing to the "accessible lifts"?
They’re pretty unreliable. I end up using the top of an intermediate phalange to give them a greater surface area to detect which still requires repeated annoyed tapping g sometimes. Plus stops me getting other peoples snot on my finger tips.
Who said anything about cancellation? I said it was insensitive or careless to draw a comparison with something which is pretty much universally acknowledged as a improvement, not that something malicious was intended. I can't see how something vastly easier for everyone involved "takes a while for people to get used to", which was my point. No further clarification on how it does was forthcoming.
