-The outward-facing screens for travel direction seem goofily oversized (though this is a personal aesthetic observation. I'm sure they improve visibility. But how big does FOREST HILLS have to be? You're already standing on the Forest Hills platform and there are no branches). They eat up almost half of the big new windows.
When they were showing the mockup at City Hall they explained that those screens needed housings that large "because". They didn't have an explanation when I pointed out that buses didn't seem to have the same issue with their destination screens, which are very compact.
The MBTA is requesting to have the 70-y-o- trolleys replaced with Type 9's on the Mattapan High-Speed Line.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/01/28/mbta-ashmont-mattapan-trolley-plan
Wrong thread ��
It's part of the Red Line, since the trolleys start & end at Ashmont Station!!!!
Or did you not know that!! You didn't know that. Don't like it, don't read it!!
When they were showing the mockup at City Hall they explained that those screens needed housings that large "because". They didn't have an explanation when I pointed out that buses didn't seem to have the same issue with their destination screens, which are very compact.
Part of the red line sure, still has nothing to do with the new RL/OL cars my friend, there's several threads discussing the new trolley proposal, how about you try general which has a heated debate about them.
Both the interior and exterior signage marquees appear to be sized for Chinese characters, not Western character sets. Another example of poor oversight from the T with a Chinese manufacturer.
When you say "sized" that's really "Proportioned," right?
Is the idea that the signs are "too square" and that an English sign would be proportioned 12:1 (12 units wide vs 1 tall) because English words are much wider than they are tall? (like "Kenmore Sq" being 10 characters wide).
Whereas Chinese characters are slightly taller and there are fewer of them, with a typical place name being about 4 to 6 characters wide, so you end up with a good Chinese sign proportion more 6:1
Both the interior and exterior signage marquees appear to be sized for Chinese characters, not Western character sets. Another example of poor oversight from the T with a Chinese manufacturer.
I'll accept the premise that it's proportioned for Chinese characters, but I'm not sure why it represents poor oversight. Imperfect collaboration maybe - but its not clear that this is some kind of failure?
Is this actually a problem? Or just a quirk?