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This is just embarrassing.

Is this really the best information signage we can put up during a major planned disruption? I think we can do much better.

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Photo of a "buses replace trains" sign with tiny font and very long wording explaining a train disruption

W I D E

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Photo of a black and white one way street side stretched horizontally

Methinks this was not the best placement for the new exit and hearing loop signs at Melbourne Central Station...

To read the PID passengers now have to walk right up to the signs as they're no longer visible on large sections of the platform.

#MelbourneTrains #PTV #ShowMeASign #PublicTransport #Transit #accessibility

photo of two emergency exit signs blocking the view of train departure screens at Melbourne Central Station

What on Earth? Why would any train ever terminate at East Camberwell, especially when it is bustitution from Camberwell?

#MelbourneTrains #Melbourne #PublicTransport #Transit #ShowMeASign

photo of a platform sign saying "East Camberwell" as the destination of the next train

On a railway line with 13 different stopping patterns this minimal sign format that doesn't provide information on stations is pretty useless.

Some kind of consistency with labelling services as "express" or "limited express" would also help.

#MelbourneTrains #PublicTransport #Trains #ShowMeASign #Melbourne

photo of a live train departure sign above a platform showing "Lilydale limited express" and no information on which stations it stops

Despite decades of promises to coordinate and unify passenger information in Victoria, we still have completely different ways of displaying the same information on our rail network.

See these examples side by side in Richmond Station.

#Melbourne #MelbourneTrains #ShowMeASign #PTV

photo of a sign from the LXRP showing buses replacing trains on a white and blue sign with a calendar on the left and an orange sign showing buses replacing trains from Metro Trains on the right in text.

Docklands branded street sign for La Trobe Street. Not many of these left!

#Melbourne #ShowMeASign

Over 10 years ago the bus interchange at Doncaster Shopping Centre was renovated. This was a noticeable improvement from the old stops and very welcome.

However, this project also created one problem that has still not been fixed today. The Smartbus live departure displays.

The route 902/903 stops used to be at the south end of the interchange where the displays were originally installed. But during the renovation these moved to the north end. Someone decided that it wasn't worth moving these displays as well, so now they are still at the old stops - one of which is now completely disused.

Not only has rendered the displays effectively useless but also creates confusion. Some people assume that these displays are located where the bus departs (not an unreasonable assumption). So they end up waiting at the wrong stop. I have seen some even miss their bus because of this.

Moving these two displays 70 metres north to the correct location would cost next to nothing and make a big difference. Yet here we are, ten years later, with the same problem, and no signs of it ever being fixed.

#PublicTransport #MelbourneBuses #Transit #ShowMeASign #Melbourne

Another example of poor wayfinding and passenger information on Melbourne's public transport system.

The "BE AWARE OF SWOOPING BIRDS" has been perpetually displayed at Richmond Station since at least March. It's midwinter now. Definitely no swoops now.

Now to make it even worse, someone has decided to block the list of stations for trains on the platform PIDs with this very outdated message. This does nothing except annoy and prevent passengers from reading important information.

#Melbourne #MelbourneTrains #PublicTransport #Transit #ShowMeASign

photo of a platform screen showing a Lilydale train with the list of stations blocked by "BE AWARE OF SWOOPING BIRDS"

See the lyrics for the song “Show Me A Sign” by Alter Bridge
#AlterBridge #ShowMeASign
https://daletra.com/alter-bridge/lyrics/show-me-a-sign.html

Another bad week for PTV communications https://philipmallis.com/2024/06/16/another-bad-week-for-ptv-communications/

#Melbourne #Australia #PublicTransport #Transit #ShowMeASign

The main escalators to platforms at the tenth busiest station in Victoria are closed for almost six weeks.

Another example of the lack of consideration for the needs and convenience of public transport passengers (see previous toots and posts on these topics, especially Southern Cross Station).

#Melbourne #MelbourneTrains #ShowMeASign #Transit #PublicTransport

photo of a paper sign informing people that escalators on to platforms 2 and 3 at Box Hill Station will be closed from 5 February to 18 March 2024.

Another Southern Cross Station update, this time from the bank of screens near Bourke Street.

For some reason the clock on one of the four metropolitan screens is one minute slower than the other three.

One is dim and very hard to read, and another is just broken entirely. Another for country trains flickers on and off intermittently.

As with the other screens at Collins St from a few days ago, the order and display of trains is all over the place. For example, why does it only show only one next departure for the Sunbury, Alamein and Craigieburn Lines when most others have the next two, three or even four displayed?

Another mess!

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photo of train departure screens at Southern Cross Station with the rightmost one black

photo of screens showing next train departures at Southern Cross Station with another screen black and one screen showing "5:32" and all others "5:33"

Four departure screens.
Three different times.
Two different sizes.
Another wayfinding mess.

For some context, this is the main screen that you see when entering Southern Cross Station from Collins Street. This appears to have confused some people (including me).

Also as a sidenote, in what kind of ridiculous order are the lines listed? There doesn't seem to be any logic. See the leftmost screen for example. The Eltham train is shown first even though there are Hurstbridge trains departing earlier which will also take you to Eltham. Then these are followed on the same screen by a random Flinders Street train on a completely different platform, with other Flinders Street trains to Frankston all the way on the other screen.

It's a wonder anyone can figure out how to get anywhere under these circumstances...

#MelbourneTrains #PTV #ShowMeASign #PublicTransport #Transit

photo of four metropolitan train departure screens at Southern Cross Station. one screen is dark and displays "2:56" as the time, another displays "8:11" and the other two "10:28".

Commas matter

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sign saying "no alcohol fines apply" in a park in Melbourne

A very rare sight, might become a collector's item!

#Melbourne #MelbourneTrains #PublicTransport #Transit #ShowMeASign

photo of a poster at a railway station in Melbourne showing only one disruption for 28 December to 7 January

Looks like someone forgot to install Network Sans on the new office computer

#Melbourne #PTV #MelbourneBuses #ShowMeASign #PublicTransport #Transit

PTV disruptions sign with default Times New Roman font at a bus stop in Melbourne

Strange "Southern Cross Station" destination listed on the temporary bus stop flag on a'Beckett Street near William Street. No metropolitan buses have this as a terminus.

Anyone know what's going on here, or is this yet another error?

#Melbourne #MelbourneBuses #ShowMeASign