[Tagging] Misuse of name tag for route description

[Warin]

On 11/05/19 07:07, Paul Allen wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 21:26, Markus <selfishseahorse at gmail.com 
> <mailto:selfishseahorse at 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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