On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dave Newt wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On 1 Sep 2004, Boltar wrote:

"Piccadilly Pilot" wrote in message ...

OK the Piccadilly Line between Holborn and Cockfosters is relabelled
North and South. What about the rest of the line? What about the
Jubillee or the Bakerloo lines, how would you label them?

You label them in whatever direction they're going at that station
according to the map. You don't show it going north on a map then
write "westbound" on all the station signs. Or better yet do what
other systems do and label them by their end stations. Eg towards
cockfosters or towards heathrow/uxbridge. This was also done on the
underground years ago. Not sure if it still is these days.

I find labelling by terminus completely unhelpful -

Having lived in Paris (where they label by terminus) and London
(labelled by quasi-direction), I don't find it unhelpful at all.

It very much sounds like people who've used both prefer the Paris system,
so perhaps i'm in the wrong here.

unless you know the network well enough to know the terminus of every
line (which most Londoners probably do, but visitors certainly don't)

But you think they would know that Westminster is East of South
Kensington, or that East Finchley is South of West Finchley?

If they actually knew where those places were, then yes. If they don't
know where they're going, the names of the directions are the least of
their concerns.

, it means you need a map to interpret the signs.

As, indeed, you do now.

You need more geographical knowledge to do it your way than mine - under
my system, people need to know the relative positions of their start and
end stations; under yours, they need to know that, plus the positions of
the termini. I've lived in London for a year now, and i still couldn't
tell you the terminus of every tube line off the top of my head (and i
could only tell you, if you gave me the name, that Stanmore was the
western end of the Jubilee because i know Stratford's at the other end!).

tom

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