(04 Aug 2019, 12:56 pm)Dan wrote Again, I go back to my original question. For all of the operators now equipping their buses with Next Stop Announcements, who funds the additional resource required to update the announcements for the short-term closures and/or diversions in place? Right or wrong; until the systems become less clunky, I don't think you'll ever get the announcements to reflect the correct route all of the time. I'd doubt many, if any at all, operators could resource it currently (I used Lothian as my example previously as they've really upped their game for providing this feature, and are definitely leading the way in the entire industry in my opinion, currently, yet they face the same challenges and seemingly haven't overcome them).
If operators don't have the resource, one option could be to disable the announcements to prevent incorrect information being given to passengers. This isn't ideal either though, is it? I suspect the current situ means that they're right the majority of the time, for the majority of stops, benefiting the majority of passengers.
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The operators themselves?
I made the point previously that they're happy to paint the vehicles funky colours.
Why not pay for something which actually benefits the customers, on an ongoing basis.
As for 'benefitting the majority of passengers'. Accessible vehicles don't really benefit the majority of passengers. They make it accessible to the minority.
It goes without saying, that it needs to work for all passengers, not just the majority.