[Colorado-talk] Automated Stop Announcements

[Gary Van Dorn]

I heard them only 0 too!!!  

Gary

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:00, Chip Johnson <cjohnson at cocenter.org> wrote:
> 
> As I ride the 0 this morning I'm hearing the stops.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:24 PM, "Dan Burke" <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It sounds like there was a glitch that required RTD to bring in an
>> engineer from the contractor.  We should see some, but not all, ASA
>> starting tomorrow, with the rest being added in by Thursday.
>> 
>> Keep your ears open and ... fingers crossed!
>> 
>>> On 9/24/13, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I had the same experience on the Dash and  Skip today. External
>>> announcements but no ASA. I was on some buses last week which had ASA
>>> on, but they seemed randomly interspersed with most buses having no
>>> ASA.
>>> 
>>> Very frustrating.
>>> Arielle
>>> 
>>>>> On 9/24/13, Beth Taurasi <denverqueen1107 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 9/24/2013 11:36 AM, Brent Batron wrote:
>>>>> RTD phased in pieces of the ASA system.  First it started with getting
>>>>> the
>>>>> visual display on the busses which also started to announce "Stop
>>>>> Requested" and display the time.  Both of which was not particularly
>>>>> helpful, just the start of the rollout.  The next phase was to get the
>>>>> display borad to show visually the next stop.  This means that visually
>>>>> you could read "S Broadway and Littleton Blvd".  Along with that came
>>>>> the
>>>>> external announcements, which seems to work quite well.  The last phase
>>>>> was to be and is still the audible information which would read aloud
>>>>> the
>>>>> visual display.  That was to be rolled out on all 1,004 busses yesterday
>>>>> September 23rd.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That has not happened.  And I am as disappointed as anyone.  I have
>>>>> emailed the project coordinator and am awaiting a response at this
>>>>> point.
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