When the automated annocuments go crazy

[Mark Gleeson]

So here we go again, this one will rank as the most screwed up PIS experiences ever

Board the 8:05 Greystones Howth at Seapoint

PIS scrolls, Destination Howth, Next Station Howth Junc D'meade, ok thats wrong, so all remains quiet until Booterstown when the PA awakes to tell us all the next station is Howth Junction Donaghmeade

What follows has got to be the most screw up PIS ever

So PIS now scrolls Destination Howth, Next Station <blank>, ok you think the system has gone to a safe state, PA then awakes and states next station Baldoyle (yes I'm serious a station that closed in the 1930's) this train is for Howth

Think it could get worse you haven't even got the half of it yet

So PIS now scrolls Destination Howth, Next Station Portmarnock, PA then awakes and states next station Portmarnock this train is for Howth

So PIS now scrolls Destination Howth, Next Station Malahide, PA then awakes and states next station Malahide this train is for Howth

Could it get better, sure it can

So PIS now scrolls Destination Howth, Next Station Bayside, I get off at Pearse not before the PA awakes and states For safety and security this train has CCTV which it doesn't

6 years to get it right and its now worse than it ever was, getting lost is one thing but announcing non existant stations is step too far