In article , Mark Brader
writes
Do British bus companies outside London generally *have* the distinction
between request and compulsory stops? It doesn't exist on any bus system
in North America that I know about, and likewise for continental Europe.

Cambridge doesn't have the concept - all stops are request.

However, when I was growing up in the Southend-on-Sea area, the bus
stops there divided into Request (green writing, IIRC) and Compulsory
(red writing). Buses always stopped at the latter even if nobody was
waiting.

I didn't travel on buses much outside S-o-S and London, but my
impression was that this wasn't something special to the Corporation
Transport area, but applied at least to all Eastern National stops.

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