Bus stop naming convention(s) (if any)?
Bloody tourists! I did some a favour this afternoon when it was clear
they'd got a bit lost. How did they thank me? By asking a simple question about London buses that I couldn't even begin to answer: why is it that where (as often) there are bus stops on the same road, serving the same route(s), more or less opposite one another, they (a) sometimes have the same name but (b) sometimes have totally different names. I thought at first I might bluff it with references to stops named after different roads on different sides of the route but that just seemed to beg the follow-up "why in some places but not others?" Ditto for places of interest on different sides of the road. My searches have drawn a blank. Are there rules or conventions on this please? -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
Bus stop naming convention(s) (if any)?
On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 15:21:19 UTC, Robin wrote:
Bloody tourists! I did some a favour this afternoon when it was clear they'd got a bit lost. How did they thank me? By asking a simple question about London buses that I couldn't even begin to answer: why is it that where (as often) there are bus stops on the same road, serving the same route(s), more or less opposite one another, they (a) sometimes have the same name but (b) sometimes have totally different names. I thought at first I might bluff it with references to stops named after different roads on different sides of the route but that just seemed to beg the follow-up "why in some places but not others?" Ditto for places of interest on different sides of the road. My searches have drawn a blank. Are there rules or conventions on this please? -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid No definite answer but I can think of cases where a stop has been relocated to a point where the nearest stop opposite is actually the previous stop in that direction. Just to confuse matters I have also seen the name used as a timing point or fare stage in London Transport days applied to a different stop on the route. |
Bus stop naming convention(s) (if any)?
On 2016\01\21 00:22, Paul Corfield wrote:
In very rare cases long standing "popular names" for a stop are retained but they are pretty rare. No stops called "Crooked Billet" in E17 at a certain junction with the A406 any more even though it remains a turning point on several routes (34, 97, W11) and is shown on blinds! Is that very recent? http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-...-a4-310813.pdf , http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-...-town-hall.pdf and http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-...horse-road.pdf suggest otherwise, as do and . |
Bus stop naming convention(s) (if any)?
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Bus stop naming convention(s) (if any)?
Paul Corfield wrote:
snip Thanks for that. I now don't feel quite so guilty if they walked away thinking "yet another thing we'll have to sort out when we own the rest of this country". -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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