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#transportforwales

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Nic Dafis

This isn’t the first time #TransportForWales have messed up on bilingualism. A recent update on their TrawsCymru bus app informed users of the T5 Haverfordwest to Aberystwyth services that disruptions were being caused by roadworks in Newport, which was true, except the Welsh language version had “Casnewydd” (Newport, Gwent) rather than “Trefdraeth” (Newport, Pembs).

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Nic Dafis

Found the language switch thing, the English text is “Activity Feed” - don’t #TransportForWales have a single Welsh speaker that could have told them that the translation is nonsense?

I’m pissing in the wind here, obviously, but this isn’t some funny “Scymraeg” scenario, this is public money being spent on a bilingual website that only works in English.

A screenshot from the English language version of the TfW web app, showing “Activity feed” as the original string which has been machine translated (or possibly by a monoglot web dev with a dictionary) as “animal food activity”
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Nic Dafis

Once again, a nonsense “translation” in a publically funded web-app.

“Bwyd anifeiliaid” is literally “animal food”, and it took me a minute to work out why this was relevant on a website about active travel. Since there’s no obvious way to switch interface languages I can’t be sure, but this might be a machine translation of “browsing”.

#TransportForWales #TrafnidiaethCymru toot.wales/@nic/11426208345295

Screenshot of Transport For Wales “suggest a place for a bike locker” application. The text in Welsh reads: Bwyd anifeiliaid gweithgaredd … which translates as “animal feed / activity”
Tŵt Cymru | Toot WalesNic Dafis (@nic@toot.wales)Attached: 1 image Unwaith eto, cyfieithiad anghywir ar app gan gorff cyhoeddus. Dw i’n cymryd mai “browse actions” neu rywbeth oedd y Saesneg gwreiddiol? #TrawsCymru
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Cassian [main]

Transport for Wales pays £793,000 a year for "revenue protection inspectors" (teams of 3 guys in high-viz jackets) to intimidate train passengers for no reason. They check tickets, something that conductors are already doing.

TfW earns around £80,000 per year from penalty fares and ticket fines.

This "revenue protection" costs 10x as much as it brings in.

Petition: petitions.senedd.wales/petitio

Petitions - SeneddPetition: Stop wasting taxpayer money to hire train ticket security teams for Transport for WalesTransport for Wales pays Transport Investigations Limited (an external contractor) £793,000 a year to provide "revenue protection inspectors" to make sure passengers have valid train tickets. TfW earns around £80,000 per year from penalty fares and ticket fines. This means that TfW is spending about 10x as much as they are earning back on this process. It is a waste of hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer money on employees who simply babysit conductors and intimidate passengers.
#PublicTransport#Wales#Cymru
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