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Originally Posted by llama64
Lazy? Translink runs thousands of busses, each one has to be programmed individually.
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Really? The 1980s want their technology back. (Are any of the buses still in service that old?)
I would be fascinated to learn why, when every other bit of computer equipment aboard a bus is networked up the wazoo, the sign on the front of the bus is
not connected and has to be programmed manually.
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Now if the messages could be broadcast to the entire fleet from a single central location that would change things some what.
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Yes, it would make it trivially easy to replace one message with another. Even if the total number of messages available is limited, there's always room for at least one topical message that can be changed as needed.
Other transit systems don't have this problem. Why is Vancouver incapable of doing what everyone else can do?