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Oops:
TTC investigating after hit by ransomware attack
The Toronto Transit Commission says it is investigating a ransomware attack that knocked down some of its communications systems and affected a number of its services Friday.www.cp24.com
AoD
Since the normal total lack of route management shows that the TTC never looks at the Vision info, I am not sure this will change service!
Maybe the hackers will be able to screw up the in-vehicle bus screens so badly, that they actually get better? Seeing as the TTC cant come up with a competent and useful design for it:
I think they are testing out a bunch of them before they finalize it. Most likely it will probably be sometime next year by the time they do. Also probably by then they will have WiFi on two more bus routes.
The whole damn site looks like an (early) test - I have no problem with testing (in fact it's essential) but they COULD have tried other layouts on the old site over the past decade during which they kept saying their new site was being developed. Sad!
They would have been better to have started again. it really is VERY poor and very poorly 'launched'. Absolutely no quality control or checking; Steve Munro lists many many problems and omissions.
He also worked for TTC in his early days
I saw that too, but some of the font is so tiny it's barely readable, the colours are just awful, and the right side is still empty....
There might be a couple versions in testing. The ones I saw didn’t look like that.I saw that too, but some of the font is so tiny it's barely readable, the colours are just awful, and the right side is still empty....
I guess it's better than before, *sigh*
Image I found on Reddit for people that haven't seen it:
Funnily enough, this is something that even YRT (although I believe these are on VIVA only) does better than TTC:
Image from https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/York_Region_Transit_1971-1980
On VIVA buses these screens are mounted on the big cabinet thing behind the driver and not overhead, so it's more likely to be obstructed in a crowded bus, but at least there's useful info. There are also still normal dot matrix displays overhead that display the next stop, and sometimes there's a separate "stop requested" light overhead.
Very lovely. Would like to see the subway trains return to a all-over red look one day...
