muller877
Senior Member
The first couple of buses - and the first streetcar or two, I believe - which had the stop-calling equipment installed for prototyping and testing were given either a different program or different hardware for the stop-calling display, and used to display all sorts of different types of wipes, flashes and fades on the display every couple of seconds until the next stop was called - at which point it would do it again. I don't know if those vehicles still do this with the most recent update of the stop-calling software, but they certainly did with the previous update.
I don't know what the situation with Dan Leckie Way is, as I can't recall ever seeing anything like that when I've ridden the 509. None of the cars I've ridden have done that with the previous software update.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
Now the bigger question is why they even have the Dan Leckie way stop on the 509. It's only about 200 meters from Bathurst St and 300 meters from Spadina (and the condo buildings entrances are even closer to these 2 stops). I was hoping that they would look at rationalizing the stops while getting them ready for the Flexity but I guess we'll have to wait until this part is rebuilt to the south side of the street.