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[email protected] · January 7th 11, 01:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article
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(M J Forbes) wrote:

Getting back to the original point of the in-car line diagrams, would
this not simply come down to costs? Presumably it'd be cheaper to
order (say) 10000 maps, all printed East - West, rather than a batch
of 5000 E-W and 5000 W-E. Plus, they'd save the cost of someone
sitting down in front of a computer making the 'second' version of the
map.

It would appear so. The Victoria Line had handed maps each side from
opening until a few years ago. Elsewhere East or North was at the
right-hand end of diagrams.

The only new bit being objected to when this thread started would seem to
be changing that general convention.

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Colin Rosenstiel