If the Miami numbers here are accurate, http://www.apta.com/research/stats/ridership/riderep/documents/06q4hr.pdf, don’t count on station-based amenities anytime soon, unless you pay the tenants… how can they make money with so few riders?

That system is worthless, and in fact, obnoxious, to the commuter.

TTN’s system is not updated in realtime. It updates only when the bus passes a wireless access point, or perhaps another bus. When the bus is nearby, you can see a peer to peer wireless LAN beaconing as “route**”, where the last two letters are the city name abbreviated. Orlando’s are routeOR. Yes, you can see if your bus is approaching with NetStumbler.

Transit Television Network’s displays do show a small bar on the side, showing the current progress along the route, with dots for major locations. They will, however, very frequently be showing TV commercials, which also hijack the bus’s audio announcement system. The bottom pane of the display is also always scrolling text ads that look like my smegging inbox…

TTN is a PLAGUE that must be stopped from spreading to any more transit systems.

As an example of how wonderful their commercials are… that “Car Accident Pain Information Hotline” ad runs on TTN. That’s right, you’re going down the road, and suddenly canned sounds of car accidents blast from the speakers…

As much as I would love to see a company like Flexcar in Miami, (I already use the metrorail for work anyway and it would probably lower my overall life expenses of owning a car), this will probably never happen with the rate of accidents and uninsured drivers in this town. Until the police seriously start cracking down on people who can’t even pass a driving test in their own country get licensed and properly insured here, this will probably be the only major metropolitan area that will never get a service like this. There’s a reason Miami has some of the highest rates of auto insurance in the country.