- Reference: 2005/0611
- Question by: Lynne Featherstone
- Meeting date: 23 February 2005
In a letter to me dated the 6th April 2001 Robert Kiley, the Commissioner for Transport, stated "It is already possible on a number of the platform-based dot matrix signs to input text messages about service disruptions, and I think there is technology just around the corner which will enable messages spoken into a PA system to be automatically set out in text on an indicator board in real time. We now need to be translating these possibilities into practical projects. Naturally, such improvements will be incorporated in the design of new Underground lines and, whenever possible, retrofitted as part...