Thursday, January 27, 2011

Mount Druitt Concourse Needs Electronic Changes To The Indicator Board.

Mount Druitt  as I speak to people that commute at Mount Druitt train station, we discover there seems to be an overwhelming support for dramatic changes We look at one area where we seem to be left in the dark ages and this is the old indicator boards.

When we analyse this area  I first think of the age of  the old indicator boards and surprisingly it may be older than the average commuter that travels on each platforms. Even older than me ( I'll keep you guessing!). I know  from talking to numerous Station Masters  in my last 20 years or so that each Station is graded according to importance of   most likely patronage on each station. Comparatively ( for example), Parramatta train Station  may be grade higher than Blacktown Station, which is most probably  graded more than Mount Druitt Station and that leaving Mount Druitt train station may have a higher grading than Rooty Hill and Doonside train Stations.

That seems to be the order of hierarchy and this will determine which trains stations may get treated in priority in preference to doing all in one hit. Anyway, getting to the point we would like to see the old indicator board changed to the new electronic ones. One thing is, it releases the station staff in doing this duty at the barriers as that is one of their duties to watch us for safety and ticketing reasons. So the following Videos are for your viewing and comments. One is  showing what Mount Druitt has and the second one is what we want  (filmed at Parramatta):

Video 1

Video 2

What this also shows is how we require dual escalators going up and down and these are in other train stations like Parramatta.

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