08-12-2016, 11:22 AM
(08-12-2016, 08:41 AM)kitborn Wrote: In my days as a driver there were two legs to a route with the same number. i.e. 2 Stanley Park, 2 Forest Hill. After many years of passenger frustration of getting on the wrong leg, they finally changed it so that each direction had a different number.Presumably that was back when the 2 did that jog down Stirling to Avalon Pl? Yeah, I can believe people would be getting on the wrong way when both directions of bus run the same way along a road!
There's some discussion to be had regarding bus route naming:
http://humantransit.org/2009/07/legibili...oblem.html
What's most important in a name? The direction? The end of the line? The places it actually serves in the middle?
Ideally, the name includes both features, the "To" and the "Via", but the finer point is which one is paramount?
As we move away from circuitous routes, and on to more grid-like routes, the direction of the bus is more an inherent feature of "which side of the road is it on?" in a way that isn't always obvious for buses snaking around cul-de-sacs. This means we can move away from names that emphasize direction, and toward names that tell you what variety of places you can get to (going to somewhere on Westmount Rd? Take the Westmount bus!).