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Old January 28th 08, 10:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default iBus. The most annoying thing about bus travel...

On 28 Jan, 11:40, "John Rowland"
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sweek wrote:

Also, if they don't get rid of them, can they at least speed them up?
41 ... to .... Archway.


Good Lord, do they tell you the route and destination between every stop?


They used to do it twice, but they've cut back.

Personally I think iBus is a good idea, but could do with some
tweaking. I think it'd be helpful to know roughly where you are, for
one thing. Perhaps the lower line of the dot matrix display could tell
you what area you're in or major road you're on - knowing you're on
Essex Road seems more helpful than knowing you've just passed Cross
Street, which is pretty meaningless if you don't know the area or have
a street map to hand.

Jonn