Miami's Metromover - news reports - April 1986

Name: Miami's Metromover - news reports - April 1986
Uploaded: 2024-05-20
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:03] it's clean quiet Sleek state-of-the-art

[0:06] just like Metro Rail and just like Metro

[0:08] Rail expectations for ridership have

[0:10] been lowered a year ago County pamphlets

[0:12] were touting daily ridership projections

[0:14] of some 40,000 now listen to Metro

[0:16] Transit Chief Joe Fletcher we're

[0:18] probably talking 8 to 10,000 people but

[0:21] a lot of commuters will find the Metro

[0:22] mover handy for getting around town at

[0:24] 25 cents a ride cars have been making

[0:26] practice rounds for weeks they're fun to

[0:28] watch fun to ride in the the only place

[0:30] they're not appreciated is in some fifth

[0:32] and sixth floor rooms at the Howard

[0:33] Johnson's downtown Trackside lodgings go

[0:36] for a discount it's not a positive thing

[0:39] to look out your window in the morning

[0:40] and see this train going by the people

[0:42] mover is almost fully automated no

[0:44] workers will man the stations or the

[0:45] cars and then there's the voice please

[0:48] stand clear of the doors hold on is it

[0:51] human or is it computer it's very hard

[0:53] to tell the first few times you hear it

[0:54] but actually it's a little AB both it's

[0:56] a human voice synthesized to sound like

[0:58] a computer because research shows we pay

[1:01] more attention that way hold on while

[1:04] the train is departing people notice the

[1:06] uniqueness of the the tones and how

[1:09] they're enunciated they pay attention to

[1:11] a computer voice more than a human voice

[1:13] yes when it's repetitive but one stop

[1:16] along the line stumped the computerized

[1:18] voice please hold on you

[1:22] approaching the college station went

[1:24] unannounced The Voice may have to cram

[1:26] for its next test the People Mov