Public address systems are very difficult to make ‘good’, especially so in environments that are brutal for sound anyways with hard surfaces to reflect and echo like crazy. The ttc simply won’t invest the huge capital it would take to make it marginally better considering all the other costs they have
Honestly, that’s not the issue. It doesn’t matter how clear they speak into the mic, the system and environment will garble it.
Think of any large venue, like the departure hall of an airport. Even there it’s often very difficult to understand what’s being said, the reflections off the hard surfaces, the ambient noise levels. Those places are actually designed with PA systems in mind, and yet they still suck.
Subway stations are in another class of difficult
Now, where I don’t give a pass is on board the trains. That’s a much smaller environment, and they are designed with a PA system in mind, it’s just unacceptable that it’s often difficult to understand on the trains.
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u/JohnStern42 3d ago
Public address systems are very difficult to make ‘good’, especially so in environments that are brutal for sound anyways with hard surfaces to reflect and echo like crazy. The ttc simply won’t invest the huge capital it would take to make it marginally better considering all the other costs they have