28 Aug 2017, 8:59 am
#399
(27 Aug 2017, 4:46 pm)Dan Both ways, so X9 round trip followed by X10 round trip.
Thought so. It was one of those questions where the answer is as obvious as an elephant being in the same room as you but I thought that I'd ask anyway because of an experience on the 16 in the past.
The last 2 stops before Stanley Bus Station towards Castleside are much closer together than their equivalent stops in the Durham direction which I suspect is the main reason for the announcement omission.
Both stops are announced when heading to Durham with no problems. However, when heading to Castleside, the last stop is not announced at all with the display jumping from the date & time the last stop was passed to the date & time for the last stop.
As I had nothing better to do, I decided to try and work out why this omission occurs. One option that I came up with was that the announcements are only tested in one direction so the 'issue' would not have been spotted and the other was down to the lack of flexibility when it comes to how long the post-stop information can be displayed for before moving on to the next announcement.
