[Tagging] Misuse of name tag for route description

[Mateusz Konieczny]

10 May 2019, 22:24 by selfishseahorse at gmail.com:

> On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 20:00, Paul Allen <> pla16021 at gmail.com <mailto:pla16021 at gmail.com>> > wrote:
>
>>
>> My natural inclination would be to put the name of the service, as displayed on the bus
>> itself, in the name tag.  But maybe that's just me.
>>
>
> 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.
>
In my city bus/tram routes have assigned number - either name is something like
"8", "172" or are unnamed with ref numbers.
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