On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:13:09 -0800 (PST), MIG
wrote:

The punter should not be having to squint at a tiny, scrolling
display, in the time it takes to decide whether to get on, in order to
find out where the buses go in general.

They should already have had access to information about where the
buses go. The main purpose of the blind should be to identify the
right bus in a hurry at a crowded bus stop.

Which is pretty handy if you're, say, running out of Euston looking
for a bus ASAP, and aren't familiar with the not exactly logically
arranged bus station. Why *not* provide the information? A scrolling
LED blind does so clearly and legibly.

The addition of calling points etc on trains led to the idiocy of
route numbers being dispensed with on the Southern Region of the
railways. I wouldn't want to see buses going the same way.

LED blinds are in use all over the country, and there is no sign of
numbers being dispensed with.

OeBB/Postbus/Bundesbus in Austria did dispense with them for a while,
though, which was rather stupid. They used, umm, roller blinds.

Neil

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