| Please do all you can to stop them putting TV's on the trains, unless they reduce my season ticket by at least 50% |
| Although there was no sound, they were very annoying with the flashing screens, and constant movement shown above people's heads. I can only assume that this would be 10 times worse, if it had volume with it aswell. |
| We all need our personal time and space and this will intrude on the only hour I get in the day to relax (delays permitting) I foresee the vandals will put most of the out of order - then more carriages would be closed as a consequence. |
| many people enjoy napping or reading on the trains and this would be very annoying for them; also many people find the journey tedious enough without having to listen to the repetitive announcements/travel info etc coming out of speakers the whole journey |
| Train passengers should not be forced to listen to advertisements on their journey. Those that wish to read or even to sleep should be entitled to do so in peace. |
| It is bad enough that most mornings i have to stand, without having to constantly listen to TV adverts |
| Can I assume that if adverts are being broadcast, then c2c will be obtaining some sort of revenue from the advertisers, as with ITV, and that ultimately the fares will come down !! I think not. |
| To have adverts and travel updates running continuously on each journey would not only distract you from either working, reading or catching up on some sleep - but it would be very annoying to hear the same adverts every day on a loop. |
| The journey to and from work is the only peace I get and I do not want to be distracted just so that C2C can make profit from advertising. I am a season ticket holder and am already unimpressed with the service I get from C2C without this kind of thing |
| I DO NOT want TVs on trains. I prefer to read, listen to music or sleep. I think Tvs with adverts etc will be very disturbing and the screens will probably be vandalised within a week! |
| Why are they wasting money on unnecessary TV screens when a simple, on time update from the driver or train guards would suffice? |
| It is a personal choice and is unfair to people who like to read, work or sleep on the journey. |
| I think it is unfair unless the advertising revenue ensures all passengers travel free. |
| I don't particularly want to watch or be distracted by the television during any part of my journey, besides which many people use their travelling time to read their newspapers or books or catch up on sleep |
| I am concerned that C2C are planning to install TVs and therefore disturb the very valuable peace on train journeys, which is currently disturbed only by the occasional loud mobile phone user. |
| I believe C2C is planning to introduce TV screens showing adverts etc. on this line. I travelled back on the Tilbury loop at Xmas and there was one on that train. I found it unpleasantly distracting and intrusive. |
| I appreciate what c2c are trying to do, but they have done this with absolutely no thought towards the commuters themselves. Albeit a good idea, why should we have our journeys interrupted by something that we don't really want |
| Personally I prefer for this not to happen as I use the commute home as a quiet time to relax before arriving home. |
Then we were
told that the screens would relay news, local weather and journey problems.
Note that at no point, did anything advise us that we were to be a captive
audience for anyone who wishes to advertise his products. |
| I vehemently oppose the introduction of tv screens on our trains and have yet to speak to anyone who would welcome them. |
Not only do we have to put up with overcrowding, inane conversation,
headphones pouring out b.....y awful music and people yelling into their
mobile phones, it now seems we shall also have to put up with loud TVs -
give the poor commuters a break!! |
| Just to voice my opinion that I would not wish to watch or listen to advertisers selling their wares whilst I travel into and out of London 5 days a week. It would drive me mad !! |
| I boarded a train last night and the TV was just an annoyance as all I wanted to do was relax after a day at work and shut my eyes without being disturbed. |
| If you really wanted to ascertain people's opinions on this you should have put up notices at stations - I really feel as though you are trying to slip this in under the guise of being "consulted with your passengers" when it clearly has not. |
| Personally, I think the TVs being on the train is definitely a good idea and the problem would be whether they are actually loud enough to be heard. |
| I definitely disagree with the installation of these TV screens by C2C. This is just a way of C2C trying to increase their profits while creating irritation, or at best indifference, to their passengers. |
| I really do not want tv's on our trains, this is the only time I get to wind down and read a book. |
| I am on the train for nearly a hour each way every day and I know that repetitive news, adverts and "travel updates" will make me very angry. |
| another platform for advertising |
| I like either to sleep or read. It is becoming more and more difficult to read on trains due to the vastly increased use of mobile phones and people speaking loudly on these. |
| I found it virtually impossible to work whilst there was noise coming out of the new contraption. I think it is only fair that C2C conduct a proper consultation with commuters on this issue, rather than assume that the silent majority are in favour of it |
| I think that all carriages should be free of TV. |
| Most people on my carriage wish only to pass the journey in silence or asleep! […] commuters will feel they have no option but to silence these units manually with what ever comes to hand |
| I really do hope that something can be done about this otherwise I will seriously be thinking of finding an alternative way to travel to London. |
| Perhaps C2C would like to reduce the fares if they are obtaining additional revenue through the TVs! Please record my vote against this happening |
| taking away all passengers option to sit in a quiet coach is disgraceful. |
| The last thing I want to listen to is some TV set with advertising!! I really would like to see C2C actually ask their passangers what they want in future!! |
| Also, the think the idea of a quiet carriage would not work as there would be simply be too many people wanting to use it |
| It would be interesting to investigate how much money this advertising is bringing in. Obviously, the money will be used to help decrease the rail fares |
| I, therefore, would like to change my vote to NO unless they can install them without sound. |
| At home I have the choice to turn over or turn off what I dont want to watch. I dont think that attempting to brainwash a captive audience is fair. |
| One obvious query is how c2c plan to maintain services when they will have to keep taking units out of service to repair the vandalised TV sets? (It is inevitable that they will be vandalised). |
Let us hope they are soon vandalised and withdrawn.
Any volunteers??!! |
| It's bad enough with the mobile phone tones and the loud one-sided conversations but to be forced to listen to adverts for the journey is not right. […] How on earth will this make my journey "as pleasurable as possible"? |
I simply can't believe that they have the right to inflict this upon us.
Who took part in their survey? I certainly didn't. |
| I would not like to see TV's on trains, they'll just get vandalised within a week and be a total waste of money. I'd rather see a reduction in fare than watching adverts for half an hour. |
| What is needed is Guards on the trains telling people to keep the noise down, and sending off the dear little souls which insist on ruining and defacing our trains. |
No telly on trains.
Would rather then not increase the fares that the expense of putting tellies on trains. |
| To be frank, our trains are so overcrowded that I would prefer the money invested in this brainwave to be spent on leasing an extra carriage. How do C2C match "quiet" carriages with overcrowding? |
| A TV on a train is a gadget and doesn't replace core customer service. |
| I think that this is an absolutely appalling idea, and very much doubt if arrogant c2c got a 90% 'yes' vote. |
c2c's massaging of the figures is plain. Well done on establishing that; it serves to undermine their case.
Is there a form, or suggested form, of letter for MPs? That would probably encourage and help more people to lobby. |
| Having seen the setup for myself on this morning's journey, I now agree there should be a quiet carriage, it is a bit 'in your face'! |
| I cannot recall any consultation with passengers about this issue, and I take exception to the rail company imposing these television screens on passengers without asking if we want them. |
As a daily commuter on C2C trains to London I am very disturbed by the plans to introduce screens on the service.
I usually read during my journey and would not wish to be disturbed by advertisements in a period of time I find quite relaxing. |
| Re your leaflet handed to me at Basildon station, I DO NOT want to be held captive and irritated by this. We do not enjoy British TV at the best of times. It's difficult to think of anything worse. |
| Instead C2C can charge companies an absolute fortune for the privilege of brain washing its commuters and increasing peoples stress levels. |
| I truly hope that C2C see sense and stop this, though I doubt it as listening is not their strong point. |
The service on c2c is bad enough already with overcrowding since they got rid of half the coaches.
I don't think I can stand a further reduction in the standard of service which this noisy intrusion into my travelling time will be. |
The advertisers will no doubt pay premium prices to be able to brainwash captive
commuters. |
| This vile intrusion would probably be enough to persuade me to drive to Wickford to use the First Great Eastern service instead. |
| they are very annoying as you cannot sleep, read, chat or whatever you want to do on your commute in and out of London, hearing this I am very much against the idea as I like to relax on my journey to and from work |
| First of all they reduce some of our busiest services by 33% capacity now they want to inflict incessant interruptions on our already overcrowded and uncomfortable service by installing TV! |
| How can C2C possibly think that we want trash tv all the way to and from work every day - the carriages are already too loud from peoples mobiles and personal stereo's this is just a money making scheme to obtain money from the advertisers |
| , I prefer to spend this time reading quietly, I do not wish to have this journey interrupted with, to me, will be useless information. |
| The distraction from the TV's will not bother me that much, it is the cost that angers me. How will c2c be funding this? |
| I do not wish to have the TV constantly blaring whilst travelling. At home at least they have switch which gives you the choice to turn them off! |
I most definately DO NOT want to be bomabarded by the noise of a TV on my journeys to and from work every day. This also goes for my fiancee, who has asked me to pass on her complete opposition as well. |
| I object to the idea of TVs on my trains. Our journeys are noisy enough with mobile phones ringing and the tinny noise from personal stereos. I do not want to then be subjected to a load of adverts and pointless travel information. |
| the LAST THING WE NEED IS A TV |
| I fully appreciate the thought process behind this idea as C2C will be able to sell advertising space to interested parties who know they have a captive audience who have no choice. |
| I travel from Westcliff on Sea every day and can think of nothing more irritating. Its bad enough putting up with mobile phones! |
| I feel that what is already often an uncomfortable journey would be made a lot worse by the introduction. It is hard enough trying to read or sleep so the last thing we want is to have to listen to adverts and travel information |
| I hate monopolies doing what they like without proper consultation |
The constant noise would be a distration, and the amount of time I am on these trains, seeing the same repetitive information would probably cause me to use buses/tubes instead.
ITS NOT A GOOD IDEA. |
| By installing these TVs you are taking away our right to choose what we do on the train whether it's read, work, or sleep these TVs will distract from all of the above! |
| I for one would certainly switch to the Victoria - Liverpool St service if conditions on C2C don't improve, and the addition of in-carriage TV advertising will likely accelerate this decision. |
My God in this day and age are we still fighting change?
Are these same people that are moaning about the exciting introduction of TV’s on trains the descendants of the same Ludites that smashed up the spinning jenny all those years ago. |
| I am disgusted by the introduction of these TVs. I travelled home on a carriage fitted out with these and they made the normal activities of train travel impossible. |
| I fail to see how c2c can assume anyone who hasn't objected is in agreement as no-one has been informed of what is happening. |
| Even if the screens were silent with no soundtrack they would be an unwelcome distraction in my view. |
| Not one of C2C's brightest ideas. |
> I'd love to know who comes up with these idea's...... Too big a salary
> and
> not enough brains! |
| Are c2c intent on driving me around the bend??? TV's showing continous travel information? what for? if we have a problem the driver will let us know. |
| Please, please, please, do not even consider having TV's on your Trains. The majority of your passengers prefer to read or sleep, and the quieter the carriage is the better. |
WHY DONT C2C INTRODUCE READING ONLY CARRIAGES, WITH NO PHONES OR STEREO'S ALLOWED.
NO WONDER SUCH AN INCREASE IN OUR FARES, AND WHY DON'T THEY ASK PASSENGERS OPIONION'S BEFORE THEY INSTALL THESE T.VS. |
| I don't see the necessity to have these. I don't particularly want to be watching adverts or listening to travel information (although it could be useful). I would prefer to relax by reading my book or chatting to friends. |
| I have to say that I am totally against this proposal, to the point that I would seriously consider travelling in by tube (not something I would normally do as it would almost double my journey time). |
| How anybody in their right minds would think we would look favourably on products being advertised in crowded trains over mobile phones, CD players etc. I don't know! |
As a daily commuter on Central trains cross-city line in
Birmingham, I want to express my support for your campaign to prevent 360
onboard encroaching onto your trains. Believe me, portentous announcements of
"You're only 1 minute away from your showbiz news!" add nothing positive to the
commuting experience. I'm one of the lucky few who boards this service at the
first stop and so can choose to sit in the 20% area of each carriage designated
a 'quiet zone'. However, these zones rapidly fill up, leaving the majority of
passengers very little choice in the matter. I have written to Central trains
about this unwelcome intrusion onto what was once a vaulable period of 'quiet
time', but to no avail.
Also, beware the 80% figure! I read in todays Independent that Central Trains
are claiming 80% of passengers are happy with the service. This is the same 80%
figure quoted before the TVs were installed, which we were told was the number
of passengers who welcomed the idea of such a service. Interestingly, no survey
has taken place since their installation.
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