(17 Sep 2020, 12:06 pm)tcts24 wrote I'm fairly certain I didn't misinterpret. Provided the number and ultimate destination combined is different i.e. from Sunderland city centre one could catch a 23 to Dene Estate, Thorney Close or Hartlepool or one could get a 55, X6 or X7 to Peterlee. Renumbering the 10 from Newcastle so it doesn't look to similarly numbered to the X10 doesn't matter. They go in completely opposite directions and nobody could possibly get confused between them unless they are too thick or ingnorant to figure that out. If somebody can't or doesn't want to comprehend that not all buses go to the same places, then no elaberate numbering system will make a scrap of difference.People are thick and ignorant, though. Surely it would be in the bus companies interest to make it as simple as they possibly can?
I was astonded during last years Arriva strike, how many people on Facebook couldn't grasp that the handful of buses that were running would stop between the listed timing points - as the normally would - despite stating this at the top of the post. No amount of telling some of them, "yes it will stop outside your house like it usually does" would sink in.
I totally agree with what you're saying about how people should realise that because a bus has a similar number to another one doesn't automatically mean it goes to the same place, some people just won't think properly.
Responses to Facebook posts are indeed a great example of this, with people regularly responding to GNE posts by asking a question that has either already been answered or would take them about five seconds to look up on their website.
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