While passing through Baker St on the Bakerloo Line today I'm convinced I heard a child's voice making an announcement about standing back from the edge of the platform etc. Is it for real or was I imagining it?
While passing through Baker St on the Bakerloo Line today I'm convinced I heard a child's voice making an announcement about standing back from the edge of the platform etc. Is it for real or was I imagining it?
But you noticed it and listened to the message within the announcement enough to recall it and post about it, which was the whole point. It may sound idiotic, but it works.
Though I will readily admit there’s no reason for the volume to be excessively loud.
Maybe if LT hadn’t bought trains which increase the gap massively ....Pre-recorded. It's been in place for a few months now, along with some others.
They're all having a positive impact on reducing PTI incidents at Baker Street, which has long been a hotspot.
If this refers to S stock, increasing the gap is a result of having step free access and tight curves.Maybe if LT hadn’t bought trains which increase the gap massively ....
If this refers to S stock, increasing the gap is a result of having step free access and tight curves.
Pre-recorded. It's been in place for a few months now, along with some others.
They're all having a positive impact on reducing PTI incidents at Baker Street, which has long been a hotspot.
There isn't any; it's ideas from local station staff.Interesting that it takes a childs voice to make people pay attention to the message - I wonder what the psychology is at play here?
Canary Wharf Jubilee Line station held an open day recently during which children could make platform announcements.
Airlines have interesting approaches to the safety videos, I have seen some narrated by children or comedians in an attempt to make us watch.
There isn't any; it's ideas from local station staff.
I was thinking more of the psychology of those hear it i.e. why does hearing the message in a child's voice seem to make people heed the message more?
I'd imagine it's the same as was deployed by the Central Office of Information when they made short films for insertion in cinema programmes and at the end of TV broadcasting for the day in the 1980s/1990s. An ex-colleague of my wife's was responsible for some of them, and there was one I recollect which pleaded with car drivers to make sure small children were adequately strapped in: it was spoken by a child, and the unspoken message was that children were getting killed or seriously injured because of driver thoughtlessness. The fact that I still remember it after 30 years (and I wasn't its target market) shows they CAN have an effect.Interesting that it takes a childs voice to make people pay attention to the message - I wonder what the psychology is at play here?
Until people get used to them...They're all having a positive impact on reducing PTI incidents at Baker Street, which has long been a hotspot.
But you noticed it and listened to the message within the announcement enough to recall it and post about it, which was the whole point. It may sound idiotic, but it works.
Though I will readily admit there’s no reason for the volume to be excessively loud.
Although the gap has been reduced from what it was when the S Stock was introduced it is still slightly bigger than it was for the A stock. (inevitable because of longer cars). The biggest issue though seems to be the lack of a step. A step is noticeable and forces people to look down, a gap dosent. There was a film floating round on facebook a few months ago showing people falling down gaps in the Sydney metro, very educational and frightening.In the majority of places overall the gap has been reduced anyway, through a combination of factors including thinner cars at sole bar level and moving platform coping stones. This is the reason why, for example, the A stock couldn't run south of Wembley Park after withdrawal. At Baker Street many of the gaps are smaller, but in a few places they have increased unavoidably due to longer cars and different door placements. It's always going to be a compromise on a network such as the Tube, and you can only mitigate the risk rather than eradicate it - as mentioned, tight curves will always increase the gaps. It should also be noted that the gaps at Baker Street are not as wide as some on the network - Waterloo and Bank both spring to mind. It's a fact of life, unfortunately, that some people just won't notice the various mitigations in place and not mind the gap.
Heard it on the H&C there last week, too.
The announcements at Baker Street are annoying in themselves but it’s the frequency that is ridiculous. Every single minute there is a puerile announcement. Makes for a very unpleasant ‘travel experience’. They need to turn them off. Or if they insist, a LOT less of them.