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June 23, 2008
Metro Arrival Time Screens Now Working
Taken Friday night at the Universal City Red Line Station | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist
Finally. After being delightfully teased for months on end by Metro with their new LCD screens hanging in subway stations with blank "next train arrival" info, the moment has finally come. Late last week, Metro began to "phase in" the arrival info starting in the Valley and Hollywood. Metro says expect to see this operating system wide within the next month.
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Getting the "next train scheduled" mixed up with "next train arriving" can lead to disappointment. The difference between the two can be dramatic.
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Sweet Lord, yes!
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Glad this is up and running, but IT SUCKS. I was at Union Station last night and the schedule was wrong. It's not like the Orange Line, which updates time based on the location of the bus. It's based on the schedules, which are rarely correct.
FAIL.
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panasonicyouth, I'm scheduled to speak with the person in charge of this program later this afternoon. More details will come regarding the program and your experience. Thanks!
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Eventually they will be GPS based but Metro staff felt that it was better to have the screens have scheduled arrivals rather than nothing as has been the case until last week.
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They're on Militant time, lol!
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It's not better to have wrong info than no info. No info is better.
Should be obvious to those with common sense.
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Actually, it's better to have the info there considering the trains do not have delays like buses in traffic do. Rarely in my paper-schedule-in-the-pocket or now on-the-screen experience has a train not arrived when it said it would.
I agree improvements are needed and better communication is vastly needed in general by Metro, but this is a step in the right direction.