Digital ‘bus countdown’ tech has been on some London bus routes for some time now — and extremely popular it’s too. Now TfL is trialling extra superior tech, for a brand new era of bus cease.
Bus shelters on the 63 route between King’s Cross and Honor Oak have been pimped up with full-colour screens exhibiting up-to-the-second bus arrival data and a wide range of different stay mapping and journey data together with disruptions and diversions. Passengers can view each cease alongside their chosen route, and sooner or later, will even be capable of see how busy it’s on board scheduled buses — useful in the event you’re not in a rush, and do not fancy squishing up subsequent to another person.
On bus poles themselves, acquainted bus timetables have been digitised, permitting passengers to view stay bus arrival instances, digital timetables and route maps. Audio bulletins might be heard on the push of a button, for individuals who are visually impaired.
The announcement from TfL comes because it additionally introduces 300 new ‘bus countdown’ indicators throughout the capital in areas together with Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Hillingdon and Barking & Dagenham between now and the top of 2023. At the moment, there are round 2,500 countdown indicators within the capital.
That is an thrilling time for London bus expertise, what with the mass electrification of the fleets — as a part of a Bus Motion Plan, which goals to make the community zero carbon by 2030 — and new fashions being launched, together with a tram-bus touted for later in 2023.
Final yr, it was introduced that 16 London buses routes might face the axe, though it was later reported solely three will likely be reduce.
Source : https://londonist.com/london/hundreds-of-bus-countdown-signs-coming-to-london-bus-stops
