In message , Neil Williams
writes
However, the technology exists, and has existed for ages, to name stops
and provide a display inside the bus showing the next stop and other
relevant information, either operated by the driver or (preferably) by
GPS. Hamburg has had this on its buses for years, London has (or had)
on the RV1,

Yes, what happened to that? One minute we had these amazing (and
useful) GPS screens, the next they all seemed to be disused.

Two other asides......

One of my passengers describing a bendybus to me at the weekend said
"you know, the ones that look a bit like a Dyson"!

And

I was amazed to hear the PA system used while riding on an 8 near
Holborn on Sunday morning. I couldn't actually understand what the
driver was saying (!) but he seemed to be using it to announce a stop
for someone who must have asked.

--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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