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T3G said:
Is anyone else getting really, really, really fed up with the obscene abuse of the text to speech system on GO? It is absolutely dire, every single trip you are bombarded with really long, irrelevant, and extremely loud diatribes. It's absolutely painful, choosing the quiet zone because you want peace and quiet, and having to sit through,,,, so many PSAs, including, ironically, that the quiet zone is in effect and that one needs to STFU. But the worst offender by far is the double deckers, which all have extremely loud PA systems, and there's nowhere on the bus you can sit where you aren't blasted with an absolute wall of sound. No human activity could ever get as profoundly irritating as what Metrolinx chooses to impose on their own passengers. Enough!

If there was any price I could pay to get these horrid announcements to be removed, I would pay it twice. There is no reason any transit system, ever, should announce anything other than the next stop, route number and destination of the vehicle, and possible service disruptions or diversions that are relevant to the route in question.
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Not GO related but when they renamed the downsview TTC station, it cost nearly $1 friggin million dollars to reprogram the god awful TTS voice. How do we get the worst of both worlds?
 
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ShonTron said:
Yep. It’s bad, and annoying how it’s all repeated in French, even though the CSA’s announcements – the important ones – are English only.
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I don’t understand why the arrival announcements are automated, but the next station announcements are not.
 
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Honestly I just tune out the announcements. I get more annoyed at the lack of additional trains on the Milton line than the "annoying" announcements. The only ones that really annoy me are the marketing ones.
 
Yeah I agree with that, I don’t mind the automated announcements at all, I actually wish they were improved and expanded to cover even more. The OLG, Simpli Financial, and Starbucks announcements are unacceptable. I’m surprised they didn’t stir more controversy when they were playing.
 
WB62 said:
Yeah I agree with that, I don’t mind the automated announcements at all, I actually wish they were improved and expanded to cover even more. The OLG, Simpli Financial, and Starbucks announcements are unacceptable. I’m surprised they didn’t stir more controversy when they were playing.
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This must be a non-Lakeshore thing. I've never once heard these announcements while riding on the LSW.
 
Every announcement with the exception of the now arriving at automated announcement has to be triggered manually by the crew member onboard the train, it’s not location or line specific, if you’re consistently riding the same trips you’re likely just riding with someone that doesn’t set them off.

The sponsored announcements are only instructed to be played when the company is partnered with Metrolinx, like back in August when you could take GO trips to get free Starbucks points.
 
WB62 said:
Yeah I agree with that, I don’t mind the automated announcements at all, I actually wish they were improved and expanded to cover even more.
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Why? What benefits do they deliver? No one regards them, as is, as anything more than nuisances to be tuned out. Does having the bus announce bilingually every time the doors open to remember to tap your PRESTO increase the amount of people using PRESTO?

It sucks that people put their feet on seats and other stuff like that, but listening to a whole speech by a robot living in the train's attic isn't going to curb that type of behaviour, and all it does is irritate people who wish for peace and quiet. And it especially undermines the point of the quiet zone, to have *very loud* announcements disrupting the quiet zone to tell you the quiet zone is in effect.

Plus, if you have a litany of announcements, that only guarantees that people won't notice one that is genuinely important, since they've been trained to accurately regard the current crop of announcements as pointless and annoying.
 
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T3G said:
Why? What benefits do they deliver? No one regards them, as is, as anything more than nuisances to be tuned out. Does having the bus announce bilingually every time the doors open to remember to tap your PRESTO increase the amount of people using PRESTO?

It sucks that people put their feet on seats and other stuff like that, but listening to a whole speech by a robot living in the train's attic isn't going to curb that type of behaviour, and all it does is irritate people who wish for peace and quiet. And it especially undermines the point of the quiet zone, to have *very loud* announcements disrupting the quiet zone to tell you the quiet zone is in effect.

Plus, if you have a litany of announcements, that only guarantees that people won't notice one that is genuinely important, since they've been trained to accurately regard the current crop of announcements as pointless and annoying.
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Yep. Agree 100% as a daily rider. GO announcements on the trains are incredibly verbose. Keep your feet off the seat. Feet. Off Seat. Like that would get anyone's attention.

AoD
 
Bojaxs said:
This must be a non-Lakeshore thing. I've never once heard these announcements while riding on the LSW.
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The simiplii one did pay for a few months of my transit with the $250 presto voucher

AlvinofDiaspar said:
Yep. Agree 100% as a daily rider. GO announcements on the trains are incredibly verbose. Keep your feet off the seat. Feet. Off Seat. Like that would get anyone's attention.

AoD
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The quiet zone one has been missing for me since pre covid
 
Some nice GO history here.

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