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Post by RandomBusesGirl on Aug 10, 2016 16:11:28 GMT
I had a K5 Solo announce "There are seats available on the upper deck", nuff said :3 Calling for all SD drivers to play that on April Fools. A friend from college had this played on W4 and had the whole bus laughing It also played "No standing on the upper deck or stairs", and "This bus terminates here" at Eden Street EDIT: Also check this out:
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Aug 10, 2016 16:18:43 GMT
I had a K5 Solo announce "There are seats available on the upper deck", nuff said :3 Back when the 368 was a single deck route, there was a driver that would play the "seats are available on the upper deck" announcement trying to get people to use the seats on the raised part of the bus towards the rear. However it wasn't always effective
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Post by RandomBusesGirl on Aug 10, 2016 16:22:28 GMT
I had a K5 Solo announce "There are seats available on the upper deck", nuff said :3 Back when the 368 was a single deck route, there was a driver that would play the "seats are available on the upper deck" announcement trying to get people to use the seats on the raised part of the bus towards the rear. However it wasn't always effective Reminds me when an ICT teacher at school tried to quieten down our class by randomly saying, "Shh, there's a baby sleeping". Needless to say, it had quite an opposite effect, with mostly everyone asking " What baby?" A new variant of I-Bus "ghosts in the machine" on VLA16 on the 123 to Ilford. TfL have added messages advising of the "new night service from 19 August 2016" but the words came out as "Kings Cross Station / Pentonville Road" The scrolling display was fine. The message pops up every 10-12 stops or something like that. On the return I was on a DW and the message worked perfectly well so don't know if it's a directional problem or specific to a sole vehicle. Yet again though TfL are not being precise enough. If you rely on the visual message you'd think there was a night bus running every night - all they have to do is add the word "Weekend" before "night" and it would make sense. The audio message is OK and one on a Countdown display at a stop in Ilford also made clear it was Fri/Sat nights when the service runs. Oddly, though, there was no message for the 145 which gets a weekend night service at the same time. Anyone seen similar messages on the routes that are gaining weekend night services on 19 Aug? No sign yet of revised stop plates or updated spider maps. 34 confirmed, Crooked Billet, Victoria Road and one more stop (Pymmes Road I think) have it. Most likely 1-2 more stops announce it but I got on at Whetstone last time I was on
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Post by mondraker275 on Aug 10, 2016 17:37:37 GMT
Back when the 368 was a single deck route, there was a driver that would play the "seats are available on the upper deck" announcement trying to get people to use the seats on the raised part of the bus towards the rear. However it wasn't always effective Reminds me when an ICT teacher at school tried to quieten down our class by randomly saying, "Shh, there's a baby sleeping". Needless to say, it had quite an opposite effect, with mostly everyone asking " What baby?" A new variant of I-Bus "ghosts in the machine" on VLA16 on the 123 to Ilford. TfL have added messages advising of the "new night service from 19 August 2016" but the words came out as "Kings Cross Station / Pentonville Road" The scrolling display was fine. The message pops up every 10-12 stops or something like that. On the return I was on a DW and the message worked perfectly well so don't know if it's a directional problem or specific to a sole vehicle. Yet again though TfL are not being precise enough. If you rely on the visual message you'd think there was a night bus running every night - all they have to do is add the word "Weekend" before "night" and it would make sense. The audio message is OK and one on a Countdown display at a stop in Ilford also made clear it was Fri/Sat nights when the service runs. Oddly, though, there was no message for the 145 which gets a weekend night service at the same time. Anyone seen similar messages on the routes that are gaining weekend night services on 19 Aug? No sign yet of revised stop plates or updated spider maps. 34 confirmed, Crooked Billet, Victoria Road and one more stop (Pymmes Road I think) have it. Most likely 1-2 more stops announce it but I got on at Whetstone last time I was on Thats one of the craziest methods to quieten a class down. Or maybe it was a female teacher and she was pregnant, Did you think about that before you crazy kids made noise all day long! Well did ya!* *Desperately hoping you dont reply saying it was a male teacher.
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Post by RandomBusesGirl on Aug 10, 2016 22:01:17 GMT
*Desperately hoping you dont reply saying it was a male teacher. Sorry to disappoint, but it was a dude indeed Tomorrow I should upload another clip of a derpy a iBus, on 166 this time. Seems all fine till you hear the destination…
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 12:11:48 GMT
The 176 announcement for Tottenham Court Road sounds like Petersham Watsons duck
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Post by Dillon95 on Mar 23, 2017 9:51:55 GMT
I was on a 51 the other day in St Mary Cray, and it announced Shoredich High Street.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 23:21:33 GMT
Instead of '51 to Orpington Station', the iBus announced it as '51, The Register Office, Orpington Station"
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Post by JaysBusPhotos on Apr 28, 2017 8:45:52 GMT
I was on the 130 this morning with 213 and the announcement said " 130 R8 to Thornton Heath Parchemore Road"
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Post by Dillon95 on May 15, 2017 12:15:59 GMT
Instead of '51 to Orpington Station', the iBus announced it as '51, The Register Office, Orpington Station" 😂 That's bonkers.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 13:25:00 GMT
Instead of '51 to Orpington Station', the iBus announced it as '51, The Register Office, Orpington Station" 😂 That's bonkers. I know. Everyone was so confused 😂
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Post by redexpress on May 22, 2017 0:27:13 GMT
Caught VWH2109 on the 6 earlier. As I was taking my seat I could hear a really odd sound coming from the speakers. It took me a while to figure out what it was - the iBus audio announcements were being played in super-super-slow-mo! The effect was truly bizarre. I thought I'd heard all of the oddities that the iBus system can throw up but this was a new one for me.
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Post by elcesteem16 on Oct 11, 2017 7:24:01 GMT
Was on WVL230 yesterday on the R9 and noticed the iBus was going a bit funny. I was at the walnuts centre bus stop and got on and noticed the ibus say R9 to... then cut off, looked at the PID and it was displaying * as if the ibus were lost. It became fine when going back onto the high street but as it got to the war memorial bus stop it done exactly the same other than this time it didn't announce the destination.
The iBus stayed at * for quite a while until it got court road where it sprung back to life announcing court road, but only after it passed the stop. 😂😂😂😂 since then it announce nothing at all which gave me sometime for engine/idle recording for a game I'm making.
So yh an eventful iBus situation
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Post by M1104 on Oct 11, 2017 10:09:55 GMT
A few years ago Volvo 9073 on the 152 kept announcing all the bus stops one after another. It was fine at first but then went into a frenzy. The driver appeared to then switch the display off as we heard nothing again from the automation for the rest of my journey.
The driver did however announce certain bus stops as we got there, more specifically Merton Garage/Abbey[1] South Wimbledon and Colliers Wood Stations. Presumably he would have mentioned Mitcham and Eastfields but I got off at Western Road so didn't hear his other personalised announcements. The driver was a good backup source of info
[1] - where he announced the last stop to change for buses towards Tooting
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Post by londonbuses2018 on Oct 17, 2017 12:01:25 GMT
125 - Edinburgh Drive Winchmore Hill
113 to Marble Oxford Street (This was when the route was bought back to Oxford Street)
I also got on the 3 and it was just the words no sound.
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