Post by Antje on May 16, 2016 11:12:51 GMT
These are my wishlist items for 100 days and beyond too:
- Key ticket offices should reopen.
- Improve the balance between security and privacy in wake of a certain spying scandal by improving and assuring the confidentiality of customer and CCTV data.
- Replace the annoying holograms with simpler digital signs.
- Maybe scale down the Cable Car promotions so that Emirates will have less reason to keep the sponsorship.
- A single but more unique jingle, and a single automated announcer for all station announcements like what the SNCF does: Ding dongs are getting boring after I visited France many times.
- Multilingual announcements for certain topics (public safety, etc) to make tourism a lot easier.
- A mascot for the tube, preferably a mole or a Japanese animé character.
- Make the interior of the NTfL more exciting like the 1990s.
- Bid to operate other metro systems like what RATP does.
- Railfan windows that allows customers to see ahead like a normal window but not annoy operators. Although I know something like this exists, I don't remember the exact type of window that does that.
- Update the Liveries to fit both the GLA and TFL brands.
- Return the TfL logo to mixed case and remove the motto, as UPPERCASE text is basically shouting like that Drill Sargent in Apocalypse Now.
- Line numbers and letters (Undergound Line 1=Bakerloo, Undergound Line 2=Central and so on; Overground A1=North London to CLJ, Overground A2 North London to RMD and so on).
- Replace IE on all TFL computers with Firefox and Chrome because modern trend.
- Rename a station Nelson Mandela since Paris names stations after famous people.
- Have me look after the Tube Map like Paul Garbutt.
The only thing I agree with is the hologram thing, which is truly awful and bizarre.
With regards to "railfan windows" I believe this is possible in places such as the NYC Subway where some stock have half width drivers cabs. All LU/LO/Future Crossrail stock have full width cabs, so I'm not sure how it would be possible.
As stated by others, most of the rest of the suggestions are either so trivial so as to be of little relevant to the public/ or simply comical.
Sorry!
Sorry if it seems like a rant, I feel we've been humbled so much by so many other transit systems. Maybe I should put the reasons behind it in the R-RIPAS thread.