{"id":1819,"date":"2004-11-10T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2004-11-11T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T03:05:09","slug":"too-much-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/10\/too-much-information\/","title":{"rendered":"too much information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/gallery\/misc\/go_tmi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/albums\/misc\/go_tmi.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Too much information, Toronto Union Station\" title=\"Too much information, Toronto Union Station\" name=\"photo_j\" border=\"0\" height=\"106\" width=\"160\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only an amateur at information design, but I know bad information when it nearly causes me to miss my train.<\/p>\n<p>The above image (which links to a larger version) is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/gotransit.com\/\">GO Transit<\/a>&#8216;s new information screens at Union Station. It shows all outgoing bus and train traffic from Union Station for the next two hours or so.<\/p>\n<p>What the used to have was a slightly mouldy old teletext system, where the screen was split roughly into three colour-coded segments: two segments about the next departing train on two different train lines, and the bottom third a big digital clock. You could read the time from across the GO concourse, so you could tell instantly if you had to run for the train.<\/p>\n<p>This new display, you pretty much have to be underneath it to see the time. Also, if you&#8217;re a train commuter, you don&#8217;t want to know what happens in the next two hours. All you want to know is if you&#8217;ve missed your train. This is not an airport.<\/p>\n<p>I know the old system left out bus passengers, but buses don&#8217;t exactly leave from the same concourse as the trains. They should have their own information board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m only an amateur at information design, but I know bad information when it nearly causes me to miss my train. The above image (which links to a larger version) is one of GO Transit&#8216;s new information screens at Union Station. It shows all outgoing bus and train traffic from Union Station for the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[660,480],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-go_transit","tag-sign"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-tl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}