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