03-08-2017, 03:26 PM
My personal branching pain point is the Eastbound Rt 29 - Keatsway (pdf) as it approaches Laurier. A random sampling of equivalently marked buses will either drop off at Laurier on University Ave as will turn left on Hazel and drop off adjacent to the park.
There is no letter, no destination or route naming differences. The first clue I get is if the bus slides over to the left lane after its stop just after Albert. So unfortunately it's not 100% germane to the numbering/branching/routing discussion at play. So bringing it around...
The one inherent benefit to mapping/numbering/routing trains is that there are, in our part of the world, an extremely limited number of places a train can be. If we assume bad decisions of routing/naming/numbering are equally likely to be made evenly throughout the transit networks, then the rail network just has far fewer options for unreadably-complex mistakes.
So it's less a "good design" question than it is a "having fewer opportunities for humans screw up" question.
There is no letter, no destination or route naming differences. The first clue I get is if the bus slides over to the left lane after its stop just after Albert. So unfortunately it's not 100% germane to the numbering/branching/routing discussion at play. So bringing it around...
The one inherent benefit to mapping/numbering/routing trains is that there are, in our part of the world, an extremely limited number of places a train can be. If we assume bad decisions of routing/naming/numbering are equally likely to be made evenly throughout the transit networks, then the rail network just has far fewer options for unreadably-complex mistakes.
So it's less a "good design" question than it is a "having fewer opportunities for humans screw up" question.