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"Brimstone" wrote:

John Rowland wrote:
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John Rowland wrote:

But Tramlink is not a road service, it's a rail service.
District Line trains to Wimbledon have never, AFAIK,
had a BR symbol on the destination blind,
so why would you expect Tramlink to have one?

But LT/LU maps have long had an indication on their
maps of an interchange facility with the mainline railway.

And so do Tramlink maps. So what's your point?

That there are methods of indicating interchange facilities without it
being
on the vehicle's destination blind.

Indeed, and I am very favorably impressed by the 'semi-geographic' style of
display currently used at key points on the London bus network. But it's
very noticable that a significant proportion of passengers still seek
confirmation from the driver that the bus is actually going where they want
to get to.

On Tramlink, the dot matrix displays at stops provide valuable real-time
information - but in a very compressed form because of their limited
capacity - so that they fall back to the advice to observe the tram's
destinantion blind. In fact, it was because *the trams' destination blinds
closely resemble those on buses* (rather than the scrolling dot-matix
displays on the latest EMUs) that I wondered why the double-arrow symbol
doesn't appear on them.

Regards,

- Alan (in Brussels)