I've just checked these, and these are the names that are in Naptan and have been set by Leicestershire County Council. For details on why the stops are named this way or to ask for stop name changes, you are best contacting them. Kinchbus is arguably just making it so that the announcements and next stop displays, match what is on the bus stop flag and that flag matches what Leicestershire County Council have called the stop.
Only the last stops I mentioned (Registry Office) are normally used by buses with audio-video announcements. Kinchbus have yet to implement audio-video announcements on the service 5 (usually run by a pair of 09-plate Optare Solos), and I imagine they won't bother until their new electric buses turn up this winter.
I doubt most of the equipment will end up at the scrap yards. The companies will try and salvage as much as possible to avoid unnecessary repeat purchases.
Yes, I've noticed it on the Stagecoach East Midlands buses that have audio visuals enabled.
Just out of interest, what type of display did the sapphire buses have?
Similar with the buses I use in Cheshire (Warrington's Own Buses), various stops are just announced as 'Post Office', even where the said Post Offices are long gone which includes my village. I even once had a driver ask where the Post Office was when he was driving the route. It's also an issue with stops being named after pubs, long since the pubs have closed.
trentbarton do this. Typically for schools or certain Supermerkets and points of interest.
I believe all of the E200's are working again along with the two branded B8RLE's.
Or changed names. A former stop on Arriva's service 127 in Rothley towards Leicester is named "The Red Lion" despite the pub having been renamed to "Miller & Carter".
Photo attached. These were installed when these buses were refurbished to Sapphire specification for the service 158.
EM still needs to get Lincoln Depot's announcements rolled out. The only ones that do it here are the 53 and 56.
But that can be mitigated easily with a link to the ticketer, like Centrebus and Transdev have done. You log on, and the ticketer sends the command to the ICU602. Not to mention on the 1 to Alma park, when the bus gets to Grantham bus station, it automatically displays "This bus terminates here" on the outside.
Getting a little technical, the ‘terminates here’ displays aren’t driven by the ticket machine per se - the displays dynamically change as the bus proceeds along the route - which usually means the via points disappear one by one, but in the case of the 1, it being a circular, means the whole display changes from ‘Alma Park’ to ‘Bus Station’, and then finally to ‘terminates here’ at various points along the way.
Definitely seen aesys do it on Trentbarton. Every time we reached swallow drive on the mainline, the driver just entered the Nottingham trip on the ticketer and boom, does not need to touch the TC430 at all. IDK if it does it on the Eg4s on Skylink Derby and Red Arrow, one thing the Hanover eg4 kept looping James Davidson's "This is red arrow to Nottingham" a couple of times when we got to Derby.
Grimsby have definitely uploaded their data to the buses. It either shows the next stop or does the welcome aboard scrolling message. You would think someone would go around plugging the USB into the HTCs to upload the data.
The naming convention of the bus stop would need to be changed by the local authority, Arriva's next stop announcements will go with the stop name in Naptan. As an aside, this example stop would likely be named 'Loughborough Road' as Leicestershire's nomenclature uses the nearest adjacent side road. They have gone away from pub names, shop names etc for exactly the reason you give in your example.
There is a temporary stop opposite the outbound but they may be waiting on getting a new permanent stop erected before uploading to the system to ensure it is correctly located.
In my experience with Leicestershire they will usually add into Naptan, but it depends if the stop has been authorised even if not sighted. I guess it depends who has put the temporary stop there but that's probably going off topic for this thread.
Well if they are like the so called real time bus stop displays they will not be very good
Its only on a few First Leicester stops, Nottingham City Transport had them previously on some but I don't know if they still do since their recent changes.
I've also noticed that when they use a bus with the audio visuals enabled on the 350 to Scunthorpe, it just shows the scrolling welcome aboard message, I'd have thought they'd have it programmed for that route by now, Grimsby have their equipped buses programmed for their equivalent, the 250.
The existing stop opposite is referred to as Woodcock Farm, so that's what I would imagine a new stop for Leicester-bound buses would also be called, especially because it's on that side of the road that the said Woodcock Farm is situated.
Makes sense!
Nottingham City Transport have them - alight here for Trent Bridge and the City Ground / alight here for the Lace Market National Ice Centre (can't remember if the Trent FM are a is part of that one!).
I think the idea is that it's in perspective, i.e. looking along the road with the next stop closest to you.
In Sheffield some of them run Debian Linux and it's far more common to see them failed than working!
