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New 'Quiet' Train Cars Block Cell Phone Signals

by Lee Bains on October 28, 2008 at 05:09 PM




The Daily Mail reports that the British transit firm C2C has begun to implement a high-tech film that serves to block cell phone signals in specially designated passenger train cars.

The policymakers at C2C, and those at plenty of other transit companies besides, have marked certain train cars as "quiet" for some time now, but have had trouble policing those cars' restrictions on cell phone use. Coating a car's windows with a special film not only ensures that no radio, cell phone or Wi-Fi signals will penetrate the car, but also reduces the pressure on transit staff who -- until now -- have been responsible for the prohibitions' enforcement.

Apparently, this policy change has been greeted with overwhelming support from passengers. Those of us in the U.S. could learn from these tactics; we could at least apply the film to trains' engine cars. From: Daily Mail]

Tags: england, public transportation, PublicTransportation, trains, travel, uk

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