On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:53:47 +0000, Ian Jelf
wrote:

I also find electronic displays, even the newer, better ones, *much*
less easy to read than traditional ones. I also dislike the
"scrolling" effect (quite widely used in the West Midlands) as if you're
looking at a moving vehicle and have only a short time to read its
display it might be showing the less helpful bit of information for your
point of view (ie the destination).

Leeds maintains the ridiculous conceit of defining certain key routes
as branching "lines" by colour, but this means you can have a bus
trundling towards you showing "PURPLE LINE" until it's almost at the
stop, when it scrolls to show what number it is!
--
Nick Cooper

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