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asdf · July 21st 07, 08:12 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:30:05 -0000, wrote:

Can anyone enlighten me as to the logic of bus stop naming? Two stops
directly opposite each other sometimes have different names. This
sometimes makes sense - at a tube station at a crossroads, for
example, you want to know you're there at the first stop you come to.

But other times it seems entirely random - on Pentonville Road, for
example, there's a stop called The Angel Centre across from one simply
called Angel Islington.

This can also cause problems with the TfL Journey Planner. In some
cases, if you ask to go to a specific stop whose name only exists in
one direction, it will only give you routes ending at that actual stop
(even if it means going past the stop in the "wrong" direction and
returning on another bus).