Well I guess we have to chalk it up to personal preference then. Personally, if I'm a tourist or even just visiting a city and wandering aimlessly, I'm going to consult a map/transit map prior to going out and not relying on the subway train to tell me where I am.
Also, you said Montevideo -- Uruguay? Is that your background? If so, congratulations!
Yep, that's the one. I've had a very varied life. I'm a first generation British Canadian, and I've worked around the world (Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Uruguay, India, England, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Georgia, US, Canada) in either mining or transport engineering. I've been very privledged in my 30 years, but it keeps me open minded that just because I think something is a good way to do things, it doesn't mean that other people don't also have good reasons for doing things in a different way.
How many people are getting on the subway to go to the Bata Shoe Museum without already knowing where they have to get off? If you're thinking about paid promotion that is completely different if we want to help tourists use the subway to get to the Bata Shoe Museum or other attractions there should be signed at the downtown station entrances that direct them which direction to travel and what station to get off at.
I'm all for attractions paying a surcharge to be included in the station information, as they should recoup their costs in increased attendance, and if they don't then it's just ineffective advertising, and should be dropped for everyone's benefit. I used the Bata Shoe Museum as an example of a Toronto attraction that might attract more tourists and citizens if they knew that it existed and where it is. It's the extreme example just to give the sample text a station, attraction, and second subway line. Not too many combos of those three on our system.
Personally I don't care why the train is stopped mid-tunnel. Nothing they can tell me at that point is going to change anything.
I don't mind personally either, but I do know many individuals with anxiety disorders who either avoid the TTC completely or tend to have panic attacks with unannounced stoppages, which just compound the wait. I think of it as in the same field as a pilot telling you that there will be a "short delay" before they start to taxi to the runway. It doesn't change things, but it keeps you informed and removes the fear of the unknown.
Any information they provide should be actionable. Some key connections to other subway lines or GO and maybe one or two landmarks might be of value. Mentioning the word station and the name of the station multiple times, especially given all the visual cues, seems redundant.
On departure from previous station: "The next stop is St.George station. Exit at St.George for the Bloor-Danforth subway and the Bata Shoe Museum."
On approach: "Arriving at St.George station.
I agree that the visual cues reduce the need for redundant naming, but I don't see them having one set of announcements for the TR trainsets and another for the legacy models. I'd support this wording.