(02 Mar 2021, 6:35 pm)Adrian wrote Nevermind the destination, I am surprised no one has mentioned the state of that panel yet 

In all seriousness though, I agree with most of what has been said already. There seems to be a desire to constantly tinker with the display format, which I think some customers will find confusing and to be honest, I don't see what the rationale is behind it. It feels a bit insignificant, in the mist of a pandemic. 

I think mb134 has probably put it best - 'Ideological preferences being put ahead of what is practically better.'

Transdev appear to do similar on a regular basis too. I've lost count of how many variations of the Coastliner destination I've seen, but this one (taken in 2017) is pretty similar to the current GNE X1 format - https://flic.kr/p/ZXBG61

In some instances when a bus is stationary it can actually be easier to read the number on the drivers side but varies on the layout of the stop/station which in most of our bus stations is awful and have to rely on the side destination screen.

One plus to those Transdev displays like on them B5TLs is the text is really bold and text is large making it much easier to read whereas we seem to be going for small characters to somehow better distinguish the service when I'd argue it makes it more difficult. Just hope we don't start going down the trentbarton/Transdev route of putting the route brand on the destination instead of telling us where the bus is heading the whole time, bad enough when we had buses going to 'January App Sale'