(25 Nov 2013, 12:58 pm)aureolin wrote Interesting. The replacement signs round Washington don't actually have number space.
There are still a large number of signs which are yet to be replaced - a rather pointless exercise if you ask me, especially if Nexus are not being consistent.
(25 Nov 2013, 4:29 pm)CatsFast101 wrote They are pointless having the route number on the signs they never update them, and does anyone really look up at a bus stop sign and say oh 'the 35 stops here' they look at the timetable to check what buses come when.
The numbers on the signs are large enough for anyone with average eyesight or better to read them from a distance - it means that they do not have to go right to the bus stop and look at the timetable if they are searching for where a bus stops.
It's something which I imagine being beneficial at somewhere like Framwellgate Moor, if the passengers were not familiar with the area. There are several stops in Framwellgate Moor, some of which are not served by some bus services but others that are.
If, on an infrequent basis, you usually travel from terminus to terminus or terminus to a main timing point and you don't look out the window to observe the route which the bus takes, the next time when you get off/get on at a stop which isn't as 'major', you may be running around like a headless chicken minutes before the bus is due in search for a bus stop where these services stop.