Spotted several Stagecoach buses today - around Woolwich SE18 - without
route indicators on the rear. Don't know which route !
Type of bus had boxed in row of three fans under back window.
Is it not a condition of operation that the route number be shown at the
rear ?

I have never understood why buses have smartblind.
Who wants to rob a bus?

"Isitsafe?" wrote in message ...

Spotted several Stagecoach buses today - around Woolwich SE18 - without
route indicators on the rear. Don't know which route !
Type of bus had boxed in row of three fans under back window.
Is it not a condition of operation that the route number be shown at the
rear ?

Outside of London most operators ceased using the rear blinds in the 1970s
or 1980s, so there can't be a regulation requiring it. That, however, was in
the days of roller blinds.

I've noticed that, since the advent of dot matrix displays, rear "blinds"
have been making a comeback, though. In fact on one of our cross-country
routes, the dedicated fleet are being refurbished and the rear indicators
now show the full route information (as on the front), together with a
smaller row of characters proclaiming "Leather seats!" (their exclamation
mark, not mine).

"Jack Taylor" wrote in
:

Outside of London most operators ceased using the rear blinds in the
1970s or 1980s, so there can't be a regulation requiring it. That,
however, was in the days of roller blinds.

When I was a youngster in Edinburgh they removed the rear numbers so that
people wouldn't run after a bus and dangerously jump on to it while it was
moving.

They put them back after finding that people still jumped on, asked what
bus they were on, and then even more dangerously jumped off when they found
it wasn't the right route.

Peter

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