{"id":2378,"date":"2007-10-14T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2007-10-14T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T20:05:49","slug":"sighting-automatic-stop-calls-on-a-streetcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/10\/14\/sighting-automatic-stop-calls-on-a-streetcar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sighting: automatic stop calls on a streetcar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1131\/941353541_a913c7c1df.jpg\" height=\"340\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night, as I came home on the Spadina streetcar, I enjoyed my first experience of automatic stop calls on a streetcar. Finally, after all these years, they have arrived!<\/p>\n<p>The system was great. Not only did that neutral but pleasant woman&#8217;s voice we&#8217;ve got used to on the Yonge-Spadina subway line call the stops clearly and audibly even from the back of the streetcar, but there was also a lit display behind the driver&#8217;s seat that showed the stops in print (it&#8217;s hard to see directly from the back when there are lots of people, but I first realized something was up when I saw &#8220;<strike>Wilcox<\/strike> Willcocks St&#8221; in lights reflected in a streetcar side window).<\/p>\n<p>Another benefit is that they appear to have integrated key destinations into the system &#8212; at Nassau we heard &#8220;Nassau Street &#8212; Kensington Market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this great for accessibility for both the visually and hearing impaired, but I think it&#8217;s also a huge benefit to all other passengers too, especially when you are venturing into parts of the city you&#8217;re not familiar with. The calling by the drivers was so erratic, you often had to peer out the window trying to work out what stop you were approaching. The new system will be a small but real boost to the quality of the streetcar experience.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that we will lose the experience of listening to the small number of drivers who chose to call their stops in an interesting or entertaining manner, as well as a lot of the opportunities some of them took to add a human touch to the trip (on my trip up, the driver called &#8220;Spadina Station &#8212; have a good evening, everyone&#8221;). My own feeling is that the TTC should get <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1032\">a few of these entertaining drivers<\/a> to record the stop announcements their own way, and then introduce one of these alternative recordings randomly in one out of every ten streetcars, just for the sake of fun, variety and delight.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/mute.rigent.com\">Miles Storey<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Added note: apparently the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2142\">first one was tried out a while ago<\/a>, but this is the first I&#8217;ve seen of them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, as I came home on the Spadina streetcar, I enjoyed my first experience of automatic stop calls on a streetcar. Finally, after all these years, they have arrived! The system was great. 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