Speed of progress on accessible information

[markymark2000]

London Buses had an 18 month programme before iBus to ensure their database of bus stops was correct and there was some sort of standardisation of names (including removing most of those named after pubs as they change names so often).

We would need years if this was replicates to all councils. So many just don't update the bus stop database. I've been reporting stuff to local authorities and it's taking about 10 months plus formal complaints before they sort them.

Where I am many stops have 3 different names - the name announced on buses, the name shown on sites such as bustimes.org and the name printed on the stops themselves. One of my local routes passes a stop still named after a pub which had already gone when we moved here in 2007.

What a brilliant example. If things like that are happening, both the bus operator and local authority are failing passengers and next stop announcements/screens can cause significantly more confusion than they resolve.

 

[py_megapixel]

Where I am many stops have 3 different names - the name announced on buses, the name shown on sites such as bustimes.org and the name printed on the stops themselves. One of my local routes passes a stop still named after a pub which had already gone when we moved here in 2007.

Heading northeast-bound on Savile Street in Sheffield, the open data says - already nonsensically - that two consecutive stops are called "Attercliffe Road".
First buses just announce "Attercliffe Road" twice.
Stagecoach buses announce "Savile Street" for the one and "Norfolk Bridge" for the other.
The signs at the stops say "Savile Street" and "12 O'Clock Court".
Attercliffe Road is a silly name anyway, because all the buses are actually about to turn onto Attercliffe Road, so anyone who actually wanted to be on that road and alighted at either of those stops would find themselves with a walk of several minutes involving a crossing of Savile Street, which is a very unpleasant 4-lane road.
All of this is on a corridor which was allegedly modernised less than 10 years ago as part of a bus rapid transit scheme.