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A platform sign in London, England indicates when next subway train will arrive. <\/em><\/p>\n

The TTC wants to install electronic signs<\/a> that will tell riders when the next bus or subway is coming. And, to my surprise, advertising is not the favoured funding model (though the option is still being considered). Instead, the TTC may swap services with a technology provider: you install the signs, and in return you get access to the TTC’s underground network.
\nReaders familiar with Spacing will know that we’ve been advocating for the TTC to do this very thing: read about it here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From today’s Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Electronic signs could soon show bus and streetcar riders in real time how long they have to wait until the next vehicle rolls around.<\/p>\n

“People don’t mind waiting for a bus if they know how long they have to wait,” said Toronto Transit Commission chair Howard Moscoe.The service, dubbed next-stop technology, is already available in York Region’s Viva bus shelters. A global positioning system aboard a vehicle would typically communicate wirelessly with signs at bus or streetcar stops.<\/p>\n

Moscoe suggests two ways to pay for the service: Sell advertising space on the signs or naming rights to the stops; or swap services with a firm that can provide the technology.He said he’s considering the latter after meeting with Rogers Communications Inc. One scenario that was discussed, he said, included Rogers setting up the technology in exchange for receiving access to the TTC’s underground fibre-optic network to set up a wireless service for subway riders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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