Persuaded of the case for keeping paper publicity

摘要

For mainly environmental reasons, I have long thought that printed timetables should be consigned to history. Almost everyone I know, of various ages, has a smartphone or device of some kind. And a railway employee told me that no-one was bothering to take the many rail and bus timetables that my local station stocks. In some ways, it was hard not to see printed timetables as old hat in 2018. However, You Write last month featured compelling arguments from Terry Kirby, Ash Mather and David H. Chenery. Web pages can be a tiresome and inconvenient last resort. During a trip to Brighton, I could not pick up any WiFi, so was unable to check bus timetables online; that would have been an ideal time to take a printed timetable out of my backpack.