"Richard J." wrote in message
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Kat wrote:
"Richard J." wrote in message
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If you go to http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/spiders/borough.shtml and
look at one of the spider maps, you will see all the stops in a
particular area. Where a bus route has a number of stops along the
same main road, a stop on the map such as "Leytonstone High Road /
Michael Road" would appear on the bus stop as just "Michael Road".

Are they useful to anyone who might not know the area? Yes, because
they identify the stop, and enable clear directions to be given to
visitors. Also, they are referred to on the TfL Journey Planner's
route details and maps, and the spider maps are posted at main bus
stops.

Thanks for the information but are you sure about the request stops?
I was looking at the routes of the 251 and 250 (from the Waltham
Cross maps) and there are some stops between Waltham Cross and
Upshire/Debden missing. The main stops are shown but not request
stops.

Those routes are in the white area of the map in which only main stops are
shown. All stops are shown in the yellow-shaded area, but that is rather
small on that particular map, because they only cover Greater London in
that
level of detail.
(Waltham Cross is in Hertfordshire.)

Good, I'm glad to see they haven't redrawn the county boundaries during my
absence....

Nevertheless, it's damn-all use knowing the name of the request-stop if the
bus is going to sail by it before you have chance to read its name (even
supposing it's big enough to read from a moving bus.)
And, I don't suppose, in these days of flat rate fares, travel-cards and
OPO buses, that passengers ask the driver to tell them when they get to the
stop they want much anymore.
I'm partly in agreement (now) with whoever said that bus-stops should be
announced; I think it might be a Good Idea if the driver announced the names
of upcoming request-stops at least.


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Kat in Downtown Toronto