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What Local Inhabitants Want to Know

10th June 1949, Page 19
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rHE original article on deStmation indicators entitled

" Where do we go FrOm Here?" 'published in aur issue dated March 11, -was most interesting, and note that it was the subject of further comment on ,pril 22 and May 13. It is a "condition of the permit r licenee that the destination of a vehicle should be rominently displayed, but the point is the method of iying this information.. . Is it tint a matter of local ircuinstances?. The eireurnStanees in London • and other large cities nd holiday resorts differ .from :pro industvial toWns. In the former )ere is a constant and frequently hanging population, '..whilst in the Wei-, in the main, such changes do Of prevail. I consider the .type of :reen used bythe London Transport Nectitive, the company and corpora: on operators in Brighton, Blackpool :orporation and other operators in .oliday resorts Very helpful to the ravelling public in such places, but ; it necessary elsewhere, where there ; little change in thc population week by "week'?

Four years ago this undertaking had to consider roviding the travelling public. with more information n the destination screens than had hitherto been given. Ve had to consider the practices employed by our ompany and corporation jOint operators, and through uch joint operation, the large number of Ldestination ames to be included on each screen.. As all our Vehicles perate from one depot, we .wished all the destinations 3 be included on one screen. Briefly, we standardized ,n the service number and the destination displayed n the front of the Vehicle, a side-mounted destination adicator, and the service number at the rear of the rolleybuses and double-deck motor buses; the singleeck buses having no rear indication the service number wing information of the route the vehicle will take ri travelling to the destination ..naMed.. . . *here particular servieS may be -Operated between wo:commort destination points along different routes,

• each case there would be a separate Service number.

• This information is ornplernentary to guidnee given to potential iassengers on notice ioards at principal topping places' the own centre, and to retails given in the imetabl es. In these imetables, the . main cads, or principal illages of the services,

are detailed, as likewise are the principal time points; and hi our fare tables the principal stage points for all services are given.

By educating the public to refer to the official guides, which are issued at a nominal price, and the use of service numbers complementary to the destination, we give the public the information required, at the same time using .a -simple system. : This undertaking,. has .,standardized on the side indicator' mounted above the rear near-side window,

and it is considered that this is the ideal position, for such an indicator. It is Operated by the conductor from inside the vehicle with the minimum of inconvenience.

The driver is responsible for the changing of the front screens and the conductor for the side and 'rear. Drivers can change indicators without leaving the cab of dotible:deck and single-deck vehicles, winding-gear handles being so arranged as to be accessible to the driver. On the double-deck vehicles periscopes are used to assist drivers in displaying the correct destination.

There is an abbreviation of the actual destination behind each place named, on the reverse side of the screen, and if this abbreviation be in line with two Sight lines on the periscope, the destination will be correctly set.

The height of the .destination letters and service numbers on the buses is -6 ma., whilst on trolleybuscs the letters are 6 ins and the .numbers 8 ins, St. Helens.. G. W. ROBB.

St. Helens Corporation Trans,port.

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