On 11/05/19 07:07, Paul Allen wrote:
On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 21:26, Markus <selfishseaho...@gmail.com
<mailto:selfishseaho...@gmail.com>> wrote:
What kind of name are displayed on these buses? Around here, buses,
trains etc. usually only display the route number (or route type) and
their destination (e.g. "701 Le Prese Stazione", "201 Villeneuve", "IR
Chur" or "IC 3 Basel SBB"). Route names (e.g. "Bernina Express",
"MetropolitanLine" or "Marunouchi Line") seem to be quite rare.
Usually destination. Except for the Cardigan Town Service. But with
PTV2 routes split into
two (or more relations), one for each direction, this isn't a
problem. The bus from Cardigan
to Aberystwyth says "Aberystwyth" and the bus from Aberystwyth to
Cardigan says "Cardigan."
Elsewhere I've lived the bus might say XXX to YYY via ZZZ.
I like the idea that the name of the bus, as shown on the map, is the
same as the name of the
bus, as shown on the bus. It means I can look at the map and know
what to look for on an
approaching bus. Not having the two correspond is unhelpful, if not
downright perverse.
Route number alone is insufficient. Not when there can be variant routes.
If the bus/train only shows the route number .. then name = route number ???
Around me most buses show the route number and the destination .. or
something like the destination depending on the service.
Of course, that all presumes the bus company is sane and rational.
Unlike my local bus
company. The 408 is a merger of the 406 Cardigan Town Service and the
407 Cardigan to
St Dogmaels routes. It displays "Cardigan Town Service and St
Dogmaels" for most of its
route around Cardigan. Then displays "Cardigan Town Service" as it
sets off for St Dogmaels.
Except when it's on a variant school run, when the drivers decide to
call it the 405, although it
isn't, because they think 405 means school service (it doesn't). The
405 is a school service
between a particular part of Cardigan and the primary school. WIth
what should be the 408
parked next to it, you have to ask the driver if it's the real 405 or
the fake 405.
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