In this case their bus route serves those street names so greater chance they would know them.
(02 Jan 2022, 4:47 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I'm torn on this argument. On one hand, I do think that the displays should show the actual destination, but like you say, are people really going to know where 'Newgate Street' is? Even as someone who is often in Newcastle, I've no sodding clue where it is, to be honest, I don't even know where Market Street is (well, I know how to get there, I just don't know /where/ it is)
I would personally prefer it to have both destinations on the screen from the start, 'Newcastle/City Centre' at the top and then 'Newgate Street' or 'Market Street', or 'Eldon Square' underneath. They can then just drop 'Newcastle/City Centre' and just switch to the actual destination once they get close like they currently do.
Although there probably isn't enough room on the standard height displays to show that, as well as the 'via' locations (do they even still have that, I don't really pay attention)
Nah, you see then they wouldn’t have room to put things like ‘every X mins’…. which oh wait, is information available at the bus stop and online…