On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Roland Perry wrote:

In message
, at
03:21:16 on Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Rupert Candy remarked:
avoid providing a final but confusing destination.

Don't they do something like this at Heathrow T123 - "Cockfosters via
Central London" or something similar, since presumably many new
arrivals at Heathrow will never have heard of Cockfosters or Arnos
Grove

Whereas most Metro systems *do* expect you to know the distant terminus.
In Brussels for example, I have to look for "Simonis".

Same here, at most places apart from Heathrow. Even as a Londoner and tube
dork, this catches me out sometimes: i was waiting for a Picc train to
somewhere towards Heathrow at one point, and a train came along that was
advertised as going to Osterley (or something). I had to check a map
before i knew if it was one i could catch.


tom

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