Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(15/03/2015 18:32)Valandil Wrote:  For people who don't know the city centre too well and especially those travelling in from neighbouring towns, it can be confusing to see anything other than 'Liverpool' on the dests.
Maybe having 'Liverpool' on the top line and 'Queen Square' on the lower line (perhaps alternating with some via points) would work.
I know that just seeing 'Queen Square' confuses some people who think the bus must be going off to some obscure place out of their town.

Fully agree with this. It is confusing to see the assortment of city centre terminating points for any outsider, particularly at the moment with Hanover Street closed. Why via points were removed from Arriva's Liverpool buses at all I don't know, but it's a lot more confusing for anyone but a regular passenger.

It would be much clearer for everyone if the LEDs had a two line arrangement with City Centre or Liverpool on the top line and scrolling via points with the terminus specified on the lower line.

One of the few things Stagecoach Gillmoss gets right is their current destination layout: it is far, far better than the ones currently used at Arriva's Merseyside depots. Runcorn seem to be the only depot that has it right. For what it's worth, without via points I think Birkenhead's current layout is better with just 'Liverpool' for the sake of further exacerbating the confusion.