(24 Mar 2023, 9:41 am)ne14ne1 wrote No it should be when departing every stop to enable confident and independent travel for all.

It would sound a lot less “repetitive and unnecessary” if GNE cut out the unnecessary info, such as what coloured fruit the route has randomly been named, along with “This is the…”.

Essential info only would be easier to understand and tolerate, I.E “[Number], to [destination]”, but GNE seem to think iBus style announcements are abrupt or unfriendly for some reason, so like to add in the waffle. 


Mods - could last few NSA posts be moved to NSA thread please?

I’m happy to take on feedback regarding this if people have more compelling arguments on this but if I’m honest I don’t entirely understand your reasoning. Have the NSAs ever done it per every stop? Some stops wouldn’t have time to say “This is the Drifter 60 service to Parkside. The next stop is Byron Terrace” (even if you trimmed that down a bit) before you were actually at Byron Terrace, and surely it’s more important for say Derek or Mavis that they got off at Byron Terrace by hearing that announcement. The alternative is they miss the stop and have to get off at the next one, which could be worse from an equalities perspective. If they had got on a what they thought was a 60, but it’s actually a 61 then they’d already be left their initial stop anyway. Also the clue is in the title Next Stop Announcement - not ‘check I’m on the right bus’ announcement. Checking the later is easily done by going “is this the 60 to parkside” to the driver, they confirm it is, which takes about 10 seconds whilst said passenger is boarding and scanning a pass.