So far so good.
Day two (Monday) involved no transport, working from the home office.
Day three involved travel to Takapuna for some admin work, then Northcote. It all went pretty smoothly with the commute starting at 7:45am, arriving at Takapuna by 8:45am, sorted out mail, banking, then on to Northcote by 9:35am for the rest of the day. With all the trips plus the “leakage inspection” at Britomart (Where do they get these names from?) All up today I showed my pass a total of nine times.
The increasing prominence of the real-time displays at bus stops is handy as you aren’t having to be so alert for your bus – just start looking for it when the display says it’s less than two minutes away. Just gotta wait for my home bus stop’s turn to get one installed. A shame the system is still completely absent for all train stations besides Britomart.
Tomorrow will involve trips to return or swap equipment with suppliers in the CBD and “Central Park” in Ellerslie, and then french class at Alliance Française, so there will be a fair bit of travel.
jarbury · November 5, 2009 at 10:57 pm
The real-time info signs are supposed to roll out for the train network over the next year or two. ARTA have been talking about it forever.
You would expect it would be really simple for the train system, as it must be far easier to track a train than the many buses that currently use the system.
Admin comment by andrew · November 6, 2009 at 8:41 am
I brought that up at the Kingsland evening, and was told that they hope to have it starting to appear in about a year. I can’t remember if the rep said Kingsland would get three, or four GPS displays per platform.
PIDs for the trains have certainly been weird, with the ones on board appearing quite disjointed.
Passengers don’t want to see “GPS Initializing”!!!
If they can’t replace that with useful information about where the train is going, they could at least change it to “Welcome Aboard”.