Roland Perry wrote:
In message .com, at
13:58:33 on Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Neil Williams
remarked:
IMO, the way First overbrand makes them look shoddy and unprofessional.

I took a party to York at the weekend, and they commented on how
confusing it was to have five different (First-operated) Park-and-ride
routes, all using identical looking buses. In other towns you have buses
which are coloured to go along with the routes (Green, White, Red etc).

The buses use different bus stops (for each colour), and they are not
very easy to find; so being able to spot the relevant bus at a distance
and "chase" it would be very useful.
--
Roland Perry


I wonder if that's a branding issue though? More likely they've got a
bus garage with one fleet of buses in it which they put on the routes
that they operate. It would be very restrictive to paint them
according to a specific route, and very confusing when they inevitably
had to use them on the wrong route.

London famously always got by with one colour of bus (and each bus from
a particular garage likely to turn up on any route operated by that
garage).