please empty your brain below
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TfL should issue an explanation of what they are doing and why. They must have a rationale but it’s one that seems hard to fathom
Brian | 07.02.25 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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The bizzare thing about this, is that the posters they printed without the times are STILL bespoke posters, because they had the name of the station on the , and the line diagram for that station - so how was it saving them money? 🤷♂️
Mikey | 07.02.25 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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Don't put your phone away yet - assuming that you have one, in the first place!
Petras409 | 07.02.25 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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It might be more efficient to print generic posters and get station staff to fill in the relevant details, such as first and last trains and even the station name. Alternatively, it must be tempting for some suitably informed blogger who happens to be visiting these stations anyway to do it for them!
ActonMan | 07.02.25 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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They are still bespoke posters personalised to each station (name in bold/some with journey times). The cost saving must therefore be coming from the significantly reduced time it takes a person to design the poster with timetable info.
Which makes it even more galling, because if TfL employees had a modicum of technical competence they could build an automation to populate first and last train times on each of the bespoke posters (a modern mail-merge, if you like). Then the only extra employee time required would be to quickly check formatting and accuracy before printing.
I could do that for much less than £30k.
Nick | 07.02.25 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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I looked at your first picture and thought some kindly person had blotted out 'TfL Go' to avoid people wasting time downloading it. But on ... ahem ... reflection I think it's just a reflection of the destination screen on he train.
Peter | 07.02.25 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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Tbh I’d be happy with cautiously written “first train around 6am, last train around midnight” text. Close enough to be useful, not so accurate to need replacing everytime there’s a timetable change.
James Scantlebury | 07.02.25 - 12:49 p.m. | #
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Mikey - Although bespoke they won't need replacing if the timetable changes so save money on reprinting, distributing and getting someone to put them up.
MKIan | 07.02.25 - 3:43 p.m. | #
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I wonder when the bus timetables are going to go too. Not that I want to give them any ideas (they might already be thinking about it though!), but that seems next in line for the chopping board.
matthieu1221 | 07.02.25 - 3:45 p.m. | #
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Time to update the Z4-Z6 stations used count.
Z | 07.02.25 - 4:23 p.m. | #
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Once again, DG's in-depth investigations go further still to get to the root of the story. I applaud such tenacity.
In a BBC, right-to-reply, sort of way, do org's like TfL ever get in touch to respond or give their side of the story or explanation?
dg writes: only once
Simeon Bennett | 07.02.25 - 10:12 p.m. | #
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