(22 Dec 2020, 11:42 pm)BeachBoy99 wrote Does having the number on the offside face really benefit anybody? It's disturbed the many displays with a colour route number section — meaning they have had to retain the nearside number as you pointed out — and they just look really weird after seeing them on the opposite side for so long. I understand that the new format is how you would say it with it being left to right, but the numbers have been on the nearside for donkeys years as it's the first thing a customer will look for. It's crap that the blinds can't be placed right up to the glazing so as to not cut off the end bit when the bus approaches, or can they? I'm useless with the technical stuff.

This just seems like a pointless change to copy other operators (presumably Transdev as Martijn outlined on Twitter). Same goes with the hideous double-depth blinds on the StreetDecks, presumably copied off Lothian.

Why change them now?

To anyone who loves to cause drama on this so-called "friendly" community and wants to dispute my opinion, feel free. Enthusiasts are allowed to moan about things at times, because most of us are, too, customers for these operators and do like to pitch in with potential ideas and solutions to problems that crop up. It's not just "having a moan" for the sake of it, unless you're a certain individual who shall not be named. Some people see things like this as a passion of theirs, and should they be judged by that then why are you here?

Except the double depth displays are actually really useful, especially on routes like the X21 if it ever gets the Newcastle to Durham journeys back as the regular displays don't have enough room to have the legal destination of Durham and the actual destination of West Auckland, if even someone like myself who frequents that route could barely tell which one goes to Bishop and which one ends at Durham, then what hope do the regular public have!