(25 Jul 2022, 6:34 pm)Adrian wrote Which ones in particular?
I know a lot of Next Stop Announcements that don’t align with the official stop names.
On the 65/71 route, “Mill Inn- Station Road” has been changed to “Station Road - Seaham Town Park”, I’m sure the stops at the top of Seaham have all been changed too, it’s officially known as “Eastlea Store / Westlea Shops / Mount Pleasant” but I’m sure they’ve changed them to other things, such as “Esso Garage”, “Westlea Road” & “Westlea School” iirc.
Of course, “Seaham Byron Place” has always existed on NSAs/timetables despite the official name for those stops being “Seaham Interchange”.
I can see why in certain circumstances renaming them helps better reflect where the stops are/provides more modern day identifiers, but I personally disagree with this format of renaming stops. A passenger who infrequently travel could be waiting to hear “Eastlea Store” before alighting which may it seems never come… Also, on shared corridors do we have two operators calling the same bus stop two different names?