Re: [NSW] New CityRail signage

[ajwright@spam.ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)]

On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 02:23:41 GMT, Michael Kurkowski
<mk@netstra.com.au> wrote:

>Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> said:
>
>>Michael Kurkowski wrote in message
>><8F0C5168telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net>...
>>
>>>Anyone in Melbourne can get around far easier than on Cityrail, and we
>>>don't rely on antiquated colour coding.
>>
>>Your rail network is far less complex than in Sydney - everything is
>>going either to or from the City. Looking at stations like Glenfield,
>>trains can go to either the city or Blacktown, and if going to the city,
>>have three (soon to be four) different ways to get there.
>
>Absolutely nothing to do with the price of fish in China. The point I'm 
>making is, there are many other more informative (and less 
>primative) methods of providing the same information to the customer. 
>Colour coding was fine in the 1970's when computers weren't really viable.

  How would you do it the Melbourne way. I mean destinations signs
aren't that informative when they only display the terminus. What
about stopping patterns or alternative paths (I know colours don't
indicate stopping patters, except for inner city stations).
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