Tuesday, October 23, 2007

LET'S GET IT SORTED!

Government and councillors keep urging us to make greater use of public transport. And that's a very praiseworthy aim.
But if you travel from Brigg this is not so easy. For vital information about when the buses run is nowhere to be found at the main bus stop in Cary Lane.
There's no sign of any timetables in the glass-fronted display boards on the lamp standards. But, more to the point, North Lincolnshire Council's modern, computer-controlled on-screen information point has been blank for weeks.
It currently displays a message: "Keyboard error - Make sure your keyboard is correctly plugged into your machine."
On the face of it, that does not seem too difficult a task to rectify.
But no-one seems to be bothered to get it up and running.
There have been repeated problems with this on-screen Traveline information facility since its installation in the bus shelter on Cary Lane.
It carries the Traveline North Lincolnshire Council motif, so we know where this problem rests.
How about someone in the council offices plugging in the keyboard and testing the system is operating correctly, then going down to Cary Lane with some bus timetables and putting them into the display cases?
People will not use buses if they have no idea when the next one is coming along.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hmmm

I think you need to put a call into their IT Service Desk