[PRCo] Re: Roll signs Interurbans

[Joshua Dunfield]

On 31 October 2010 17:12, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> And my father, who was new to Pittsburgh in 1928, disliked that system that PRC used because if you were unfamiliar with the geography, you had no idea where the car was going.

Even with electronic headsigns, the buses in Montreal only show the
route name.  This is very helpful in the suburbs, where the inbound
and outbound buses are sometimes distinguished only by which of the
two adjacent stops you need to wait at.

The "best" example?  The 221 METROBUS LIONEL-GROULX.  Try explaining
to someone that the 221 METROBUS LIONEL-GROULX isn't going to
Lionel-Groulx, but that if they wait at the stop 50 feet behind them,
a different bus, that also says 221 METROBUS LIONEL-GROULX, will go to
Lionel-Groulx.

-j.