Tokyo train info is far ahead of NYC's! www.oconnorgreentoursnyc.com

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This is a video screen atop a door in a Yamanote train, I think, in Tokyo. First it tells everything in Japanese, which I can't read and only minimally speak. But then it goes to English! Not only does it tell what stop is next, as the announcer on a NYC train -- usually -- does. The speaker and the screen tell you what door in which car you are, and where the nearest escalator is!

The newest trains in NYC have LED screens that give the "next stop is..." information, and certain safety information, but an older person is on his own when it comes to finding out where the elevator or escalator are.

Why not put TVs in NYC trains? Possibly because, while the Japanese are almost unfailingly polite, New Yorkers are not. Perhaps there's a fear that vandals would go through the train and break them all.

I wish trains in NYC were bilingual.
I wish they had video screens.
I wish they were scheduled and on time, as these all are.
I wish tourists could know where the elevator was at 34th Street without having to look at a paper map, because maps are gone at 34th Street by 10 AM. Likewise 42nd, 57th and 59th.

www.oconnorgreentoursnyc.com

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[gingerboy120]

u gotta remeber the mta gets it from japan so we will always b behing japan in technology

[andrewpmk]

That's the Chuo line not the Yamanote

[s1l3n7gh057]

I like how the Tokyo Metro website offers station maps of every station in the system (including transfer corridors between lines). The MTA could only dream of being able to do that. T_T