TV Mobile to be silenced

The incessant blaring from the TV Movile speakers mounted on our SBS Transit buses will finally be silenced come Jan 2010. Mediacorp’s decision not to renew its agreement with SBS Transit will be a great auditory relief to commuters, including me, who travels frequently on buses equipped with the system.

It’s good riddance for the programmes on TV Mobile are not only boring, the audio emitted via the speakers strategically placed all over the roof of the buses have also shattered the relative peace and quiet of bus rides and turned them into noisy headache inducing trips.

I am sure most people will welcome a return to quieter bus rides. The only thing we have to contend with now are the young/and old blokes (read IDIOTS) blaring music from their handphones and the eardrum splitting sounds emitted from overworked headphones. On the latter, I am glad to know that the EU has placed an order on the manufacturers of MP3 players to restrict the volume on their sets.

Ah…. finally lower decibels in our already way too noisy world.