(28 Nov 2014, 7:35 pm)Jimmi wrote Something I mentioned in the GNE - Latest thread earlier.

I was on service X22 from Durham to the MetroCentre this morning and at almost every stop between Durham Bus Station and Chester-Le-Street, Front Street someone flagged down the X22 and the driver either had to pull into the stop or slow right down and then speed up again as people were flagging the bus down and many of them naturally assumed because it was a Northern President that it was operating service 21.

So my question is, do people actually read the destination screens on Presidents operating service X22?

I recall something like this about two years ago, but Service X21, rather than Service X22.

There was an elderly gentleman who flagged a Service X21 (with 6038 as the vehicle), and asked if it went to Birtley. I remember the look on the driver's face was priceless, and he said he went straight onto the motorway. He then told him it said X21 on the destination screen, and the old man told him he flagged him down because the bus looked exactly the same to those on Service 21.

I felt quite sorry for him, so I made sure he got on the next Angel that passed.