Constant anouncements on London Buses
Errr,Q Have you visited Edinburgh lately..?
Fleet full of absolutely sparkling and totally legible white-on-black
"traditional" scrolls,even the 10 year old buses readable at a distance.
Crisp white backlights AND many vehicles with Side and Rear displays showing
the End Destination also.
All backed up with Parisian style interior rolling "Next Stop" digital
panels on the newer vehicles.
Crikey,the canny Scots even had "Rugby Special" panels for the Murrayfield
specials on the Via scroll.
Then for the really inquisitive traveller Lothian resort to slide-in boards
attached to the front panel for odd workings/intermediate destinations.
IMHO Lothians standard should be adopted by the Industry generally as THE
one to aim for.
PS: An Edinburgh trip also allows direct side-by-side comparison between a
10 year old Lothian "Paper" scroll and a sparkling new First Group LED with
a lenghty Scots placename squeezed into the available space so that its
impossible to differentiate between the numbers and the letters.
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