It takes time to get round every station, and some platform surfaces are harder to install tactile paving in than others. The announcement can be set up overnight.
I do agree with this though. For the first few weeks maybe it's acceptable, but surely it's got to be possible to put a specific announcement on at each station telling you which platforms don't have it.
It was in the evening, a good few hours after lines had reopened.
That explains why it seems to be played at exactly the same time each morning, just before I fall down the stairs.
Including at Gloucester on the platforms ( 1 and 2 ) which DO have tactile paving.
You need to be careful with that. Regardless of personal opinions on that announcement, it's a DfT requirement that it's played and they do carry out unannounced monitoring. It could also be seen as misconduct - and especially when crew are in dispute it's not worth giving management ammunition over silly things like stopping required auto announcements.
I think the third examples in each case should be simplified to just provide the message needed for someone who is waiting on the platform, because unless it can be timed with accuracy, to only start once the doors have opened, the aspects of the announcement that apply to incoming passengers will be missed by them.
With SWR, it's "mind the lack of gap"!
Waterloo accepted
Personally i really liked the "[station]. This is [station]." announcements. They were very reassuring to hear especially on late night trains when it was difficult to know where you were. It was very disappointing when the Amey systems were removed and as such these "[station]. This is [station]." announcements have all disappeared. I remember on so many occasions when i was travelling late at night on unfamiliar lines and found these announcements so helpful and reassuring at knowing where i was as it could be difficult to see the station signs.
Nothing Orwellian at all going on there then...
The irony!
The idea is that you never know what the next threat will be, so by keeping the warning general people will be looking for anything, rather than specifically unattended bags or whatever.
Which is all rendered utterly irrelevant as it is played so often that no-one is listening. They need to get rid of it, as it has zero effect. As for the "See it. Say it. Sorted" end, that should never, ever have been allowed to make it onto the announcements - it is easily interpreted as "Sort it"* in other words the person should take matters into their own hands.
Not so long ago I saw a couple of 455s on a Reading service. Now that certainly didn't look right...
Exactly!The joke in GTR's area when the See it, say it, sorted message started was 'Yes, I'd like to report a train that ran on time!'
On the Northern train I was on earlier the message was "if somethig makes you feel uncomfortable contact British Transport Police". So I now know what to do if the heating isn't working on a train this winter.
Ironically though, I don't remember any of this nonsense in the 80s, when there actually was an imminent threat. Nobody asked why there weren't any bins on the tube, we all just got on with it.
The IRA by and large played by different rules. They generally telephoned warnings and often targeted economic infrastructure rather than lives. In addition, the population has grown so each threat poses a greater risk.
At last, in post #162, somebody has actually answered the question asked by the OP in the title of the thread, instead of trotting out their long standing whinges about pa announcements.
Even though I have never been anywhere near terrorist 'events' and rarely affected by measures taken to deal with the aftermath, I think increased audible (and visual) messaging about them and other hazards is a minor irritation that pales into insignificance compared to the dreadful and often life-changing impact of what they aretrying to prevent. It's a matter of opinion whether the messaging achieves its aim, but much of the debate in this thread is focused on specific personal irritations rather than wholesale assaults on the population's mental health.
Important point - 'the terrorists' all want different things, (different forms of Islam, political agendas, environmental actions, personal vendettas etc) and not all of them want us to change our way of life (some just want to die in a certain way). However the ways we have changed our life satisfy no terrorist at all (we're still the decadent, wasteful, society we always were, just now we have to keep any eye out for lost bags).
