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RE: Public Transportation Safety Verbosity - Why So Many Words, So Often?
I couldn't agree more. Announcements at train stations and on the trains themselves have become background white noise that I just tune out. I used to live (kind of) above a local train station in Mumbai. Sion is one of the most used transit points in the city and my studio was right across the station, 5 floors above the tracks. I would hear announcements in my sleep - in Marathi, Hindi and English. They start at about 3 50 a.m and end at 1: 15 a.m. I got used to it after a while but I would always wonder WHY they had to announce more than just which train was coming in three languages every 2 minutes.
Oh wow - so you were literally hearing those announcements in your sleep! Good grief. At least South Station is pretty well-enclosed, and all the buildings around it are office towers. But I'm sure zoning is a lot more mixed-use in India, as much as it exists at all!
Haha, I would know what time it was when I woke up to use the bathroom because of the announcements. No clock needed! Sure, zoning is more mixed use but in most areas it is adapted and readapted to incremental change.
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