(09 Apr 2019, 12:01 am)BeachBoy99 wrote I absolutely love the new displays. As much as I liked them with only the terminal point, they did become confusing at various places i.e. Dalton Park which only has one stop in a turning circle. The static displays that include the via points are so much better. I'm over the moon you've brought them back and they are so much better now than the previous ones that had the awful scrolling via points. I also love the modern, bold font for the terminating point and I can't wait for this to be rolled out onto the remaining services. GNE, you've upped your game once again 

Also Dan, I have some feedback about the displays whilst you're in the process of changing them: you should have a go at displaying the route numbers in the font associated with each brand in the same way you have already done with the X1, X9|X10 and the 4. For instance with The Crusader 27 (just something I made quickly) 

...that WOULD be something to see if it was possible! Keep Arial as the standard route number for Go North East services, though.

Just another thought to make your brand stand out even more than the others. Arriva's are rubbish; Stagecoach's are rubbish. Yours are fantastic and would be even more incredible with this feature!

Good stuff!

It's been a team effort with a lot of discussion internally to use the displays as effectively as possible - there's no right or wrong way of doing them and I don't think the Arriva or Stagecoach displays are bad really. Certainly the latter have also worked on trying to create a solution like Go North East whereby they increase the font size for the terminal point whilst having static via points which aren't as difficult to read as scrolling via points.

We know the Arial route numbers look great and really stand out as the bus approaches you, the rest was just getting the right balance of the terminal point being large enough to still be legible from a distance, but also have enough space for a small via point or two.

The route numbers are something we can look at into in the future.