On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:07:05 +0100
Water musician wrote:
Bendies here in Caen and many other French cities operate “on at the front,
off at the centre and rear” rule. Enforced by onboard CCTV in many locales.

Mind you, Twisto here (aka Kaolis) over-eggs the pudding somewhat with the
message “Je Monte, Je Valide” alternating with the destination on the
front display panel every few seconds. A big irritation in the city centre
when you can’t tell whether your bus is next or one following, since they
are all showing the same front message.

As one friend put it: “Kaolis obviously think we Caennais are stupid. Half
the population is too young to know any other kind of bus – and the rest of
us have had years to learn how it works. We know we have to pay or valider
when we board – what we REALLY want to know is this if it is the bus we
want to board.”

The london bus dot matrix boards at bus stops are useful , but they do have
an annoying habit of slowly going through a list of up to 9 buses r a t h e r
s l o o o o w ly , which is annoying when its telling you the 7th, 8th and 9th
buses (which are usually 15-20 mins away) when all want to know if your bus is
coming in the next 2 mins or whether you have enough time to do a bit more
shopping.

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Spud